{"id":434328,"date":"2026-08-16T05:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434328\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T05:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:27:13","slug":"silver-alert-activated-for-missing-man-last-seen-in-colma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434328\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Alert activated for missing man last seen in Colma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KRON<\/a>) \u2014 The California Highway Patrol activated a Silver Alert Friday morning after an 88-year-old man was reported missing from San Mateo County.<\/p>\n<p>William Marquardt was last seen in Colma near Collins Avenue and El Camino Real on Thursday around 6:40 p.m., CHP said. The Silver Alert was activated in the Bay Area counties of San Mateo, Santa Clara and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"951\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/missing-person-william-marquardt-chp.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3103648\" \/>Missing person William Marquardt (Photo: CHP)<\/p>\n<p>The missing man is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 210 pounds. He has gray hair and blue eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Marquardt was last seen wearing a blue puffer jacket, orange shirt, dark blue pants and dark shoes.<\/p>\n<p>CHP believes he is on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who sees Marquardt is asked to call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) \u2014 The California Highway Patrol activated a Silver Alert Friday morning after an 88-year-old man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-434328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}