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Brother searches for sibling�s remains By Jessica Smith Dennis Bobo doesn�t expect to find his brother, Robert, alive. "Clothes and bones is about all I�m going to find," Bobo said Monday, the second anniversary of his brother�s disappearance. "We�re sure he�s dead. But some kind of proof would certainly help with the closure." So once a month, Bobo travels to the Prospect-area campsite where Robert vanished. He looks for ripped clothing or skeletal remains, anything that will uncover what happened to his brother. He hasn�t found anything. Nor have investigators and searchers who scoured the area when Robert Bobo first went missing. Robert Bobo disappeared Oct. 2, 1998, the night a friend dropped him off at his campsite in the Rogue River National Forest between Prospect and Union Creek. He was gone the next morning when another friend came to pick him up for the opening day of hunting season. Monday, Dennis Bobo talked to hunters near the Woodruff Meadows campsite where his brother lived alone. Bobo said he wants hunters to be aware that someone went missing in the area. "When you�re hunting and you see an old ripped flannel shirt, typically you wouldn�t stop and give it any attention," Bobo said. "But it might be something he was wearing." Anyone who finds clothing, pieces of fabric or skeletal remains is asked to call the Jackson County Sheriff�s Department. New evidence would be welcomed by investigators who have "nothing concrete," said sheriff�s Detective Dan Hobbs. According to Hobbs, there�s no evidence of foul play against Robert Bobo. There�s no evidence he fled the area. There�s no evidence he was hurt, either. Hobbs� theory is that Robert Bobo went to scout for another campsite and was either injured or had a medical emergency that left him unable to return to his campsite. If that�s the case, there may be evidence in the area, Hobbs and Dennis Bobo say. Mail Tribune Home | Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Dow Jones & Co., Inc. | Privacy | Contact Us Copyright � 2000 Mail Tribune, Inc.