The Disappearance of a Former Child Actor | Missing #23
Joseph Pichler disappears after talking to a friend on the phone. He has not been heard from since.
Joseph David Wolfgang Pichler, was a former child actor who would inexplicably vanish one day in 2006, never to be heard from again.
His Life and Career
Joe was born on February 14, 1987, in Bremerton, Washington. He was the fourth of five children. At six-years-old, he and his family relocated to Los Angeles, California, to begin his acting career. Over the years, Joe lived part-time in Los Angeles, pursuing acting jobs until 2002.
His roles included many commercials and a recurring role as Brennan Newton on the third and fourth movies of the Beethoven film series.
The film, Children on Their Birthdays, (based on the short story of the same name by Truman Capote) — which came out in 2002 — was Pichler’s last film appearance before his unresolved vanishing in early 2005.
In 2003, at the insistence of his family, Joe returned to his hometown of Bremerton (which is across Puget Sound and about 16 miles west of Seattle). There, he graduated from high school in 2005. According to family, Pichler had planned to return to Los Angeles in the following…
