CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 11, 1990
Police used a helicopter with an infrared sensing device on Friday to search for a young physician who disappeared last week after setting out on a mountain bike ride. The search concentrated on the rugged Topanga Canyon area 20 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles after officers found entries in Dr. Steven Ray Stoltz's journal that showed he had biked there twice before. "It's a big area. We're talking 50 square miles," said Los Angeles Police Detective John Sack.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 10, 1990 | ANDREA FORD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The last time any of his co-workers saw Dr. Steven Ray Stoltz, a tall, handsome young physician who arrived in Los Angeles seven weeks ago fresh out of medical school, he was pedaling away from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on his blue-green Trek mountain bike. The next morning, a Saturday and his only day off that week, he stopped at a Security Pacific Bank branch near his Westside apartment, deposited his biweekly paycheck then cashed a check for $300.