No one has seen or heard from Zacharey Taylor Wilks for 15 days since he left his Lompoc home for Las Vegas, Nevada.
Wilks’s brother and a couple of friends saw Wilks off at around 11 p.m. on May 24 when he left in his black 1994 Honda Civic for Las Vegas, according to his mother Elizabeth Wilks. As a handyman in Lompoc, Zacharey planned his trip to be part work, part vacation as he would be working on his aunt and uncle’s houseboat in Lake Powell after first stopping at a casino in Las Vegas.
After Wilks did not reaching his destination within two days, an all-out search began to locate him or his car. “The first leg of the strategy was to search all possible routes that he may have taken between Lompoc and Las Vegas,” said his father, David Wilks. The family contacted all law enforcement agencies in the corresponding areas to assist in searching highways 1, 101, 166, 33, 5, and 38. According to Lompoc Police Sergeant Kevin Martin, a ping on Zacharey's cellphone showed that he had been on Highway 166 at a time and a place that fit the route and timing for his journey to Las Vegas.