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Philip Taylor Kramer was by all accounts in the prime of his life when, one February in 1995, he vanished without a trace — not to be found until years later

Kramer had been the bass guitarist for the legendary heavy metal band Iron Butterfly before he went on to work as a rocket scientist at Northrop guidance systems

But on Feb. 12, 1997, he left his home in the L.A. suburb of Thousand Oaks and never returned

Philip Taylor Kramer was by all accounts in the prime of his life when, one February in 1995, he vanished without a trace — not to be found until years later.

Kramer had been the bass guitarist for the legendary heavy metal band Iron Butterfly before he went on to work as a rocket scientist at Northrop guidance systems, where he worked on the MX nuclear missile in t

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