Deadliest Catch's star Jake Anderson's father Keith is missing

[Valasca]

Thanks to Obsolete for pointing this out.

A star of the Discovery Channel's hit reality series "Deadliest Catch" is appealing to the public for help in finding his father, who has been missing for two months.

"I just want to know what happened to my dad," Jake Anderson, a deckhand on the F/V Northwestern crab fishing boat, told AOL News. "I want to bring my father home. He wouldn't give up on us, and I'm not going to give up on him. I just don't know what to do. We need help, and I hope that someone out there will help give us some sort of closure."

Keith Anderson, a 63-year-old retired high school counselor from Anacortes, Wash., disappeared Jan. 6. Jake Anderson was on the Northwestern, crab fishing in the Bering Sea, but Keith's brother Chris saw him that day.

"He came to my house that morning, and we had our regular cup of coffee together," Chris Anderson said. "Afterward, he ran some errands for his family and moved a washer and dryer for one of his daughters. He then went to meet an acquaintance."

According to Chris and Jake, the "acquaintance" Keith went to meet was going to provide him with Oxycontin, a powerful prescription painkiller. The Andersons said he was in constant pain and suffering from bouts of depression.

"He was originally prescribed it for a rotator cuff surgery; then, about six months later, he broke four ribs and it was prescribed again," Chris said. "In my personal opinion, they [doctors] give it out too easy. He had been fighting to get off the drug, but it was difficult with the pain he was experiencing, coupled with the pressures he was under."

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[CplPunishment]

This screams of foul play. I can see it unfolding now. I love the show BTW.

[Obsolete]

I love the show too, Jake is just frickin adorable. I bawled last season when he got the call that his sister had died. This family definitely deserves a break. Hope dad makes his way home soon

Thanks Am!

[akika666]

chronic pain, depression and opiate addiction are such a heavy burden to carry. i hope he is found safe, but i'm afraid no good can come of an oxycontin connection disappearance.

[Obsolete]

The fact that's he's been missing since January really doesn't look good either.

[Rhoni]

It is so sad to me that people become addicted to a drug that is prescribed by a Doctor. Seems there should be a way to make a pain pill that helps the pain that is not so addictive.

I can speak from personal experience that kicking a pain pill habit is one of the hardest things a person will ever go through. Withdrawls cause severe depression. What makes it so sad to me is that people who do not intentionally set out to become a drug addict end up with an addiction that is near impossible to kick..

I hope this father is found somewhere safe although 2 months is a very long time.

I had to come back after reading my own post. I don't think that anyone sets out to become a drug addict. What I meant is that when doing other drugs such as herion, cocaine, meth.ect you go in knowing it could become an addiction. Someone who is prescribed pain pills is taking them for a condition that needs treated.

[akika666]

wow it's amazing that the amount of blood found was not sufficient to do a DNA screen. i guess i'm spoiled by all these high-falutin forensic shows where they find an epithelial cell and track down the killer.

[Obsolete]

I hope this father is found somewhere safe although 2 months is a very long time.

its actually been 5 months

[Rhoni]

its actually been 5 months

thank you, I realized that after I typed and retyped my comment..

[Misskittychaos]

His truck was found out on an old logging road...it never looked very hopeful