Reward money increased for missing Sac County trucker

David Schultz, 53, has been missing since Nov. 21, 2023

Wall Lake trucker David Schultz, 53, went missing from Sac County on November 21, 2023. 

The reward fund for any information regarding the disappearance of Sac County trucker David Schultz has increased to $28,400.

Schultz left his rural Wall Lake home around 7 p.m. on Monday, November 20 to deliver a load of hogs from Eagle Grove to Sac City. 

On November 21, a Sac County Secondary Road employee discovered a semi-tractor trailer — still fully loaded with hogs — parked on northbound Highway 71 about fives miles north of the Old Highway 20 intersection. 

He contacted the Sac County Sheriff’s Office at 3:04 p.m. Officials found Schultz’s wallet and cell phone inside the semi and his jacket in a nearby ditch. 

Schultz’s wife, Sarah Schultz, told KCAU 9 she last saw her husband Monday around 7:30 p.m. before he left to go to work. 

Law enforcement and volunteers spent the next several hours searching the area on foot with a K9 unit and assisted by the Iowa State Patrol airwing unit. An airplane equipped with forward-looking infrared was dispatched but did not detect any heat signature consistent with a person. 

Using cell phone data, investigators found Schultz had arrived at the junction of Highway 20 and Highway 71 at around 12:18 a.m. The data showed his phone continued traveling north to where the truck was found, suggesting his truck may have been alongside the road since 12:40 a.m. on November 21.

Agencies that have assisted in this case include the Sac County Sheriff’s Office, the Lake View Police Department, the Sac County Attorney’s Office, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the Iowa State Patrol, the Wright County Sheriff’s Office, and Minneapolis police.

Many officers and investigators didn’t have a Thanksgiving, Sac County Sheriff Ken McClure told the Sioux City Journal. Christmas time normally spent with families was also spent expending extra hours in searching for David, he said.

Anyone with information on Schultz’s location or any other information is asked to call the Sac County Sheriff’s Office at 712-662-7127, Sac County Crime Stoppers or email tips@saccountyiowa.gov.

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