Jeremy Doland Bright (born May 25, 1972 – disappeared August 14, 1986) is an American teenager who disappeared under mysterious circumstances while attending the Coos County Fair in Myrtle Point, Oregon.
At the time of his disappearance, Bright resided in Grants Pass, and had been visiting family in Myrtle Point.
On August 14, 1986, he attended the Coos County Fair with his younger sister.
During the day, the two separated, but he failed to meet her that afternoon at the carnival's ferris wheel.
Several witnesses reported seeing Bright forcibly removed from the area by an unknown man, though these sightings were not confirmed.
Initially, local law enforcement suspected foul play in Bright's case; however, within the week following his disappearance, several reported sightings of him in the area led detectives to reverse this decision, and he was temporarily classified as a runaway.
Numerous theories and rumors circulated in Myrtle Point following Bright's disappearance, which were detailed in a 1989 segment on Unsolved Mysteries.
Among them were that he overdosed on a drug at a party and his body had been disposed of by those present; another that he had been shot by local men while swimming in the Coquille River, who attempted to nurse him back to health, but buried his body in a shallow grave after he succumbed to the wound.
Law enforcement conducted searches of property in correspondence with these rumors, but found no evidence leading to Bright's discovery.
A local man who had babysat Bright during his childhood, Terry Lee Steinhoff, was considered a suspect in his disappearance after Steinhoff was convicted of murdering a 32-year-old woman; there had been reports that Bright was seen in Steinhoff's truck the day he disappeared.
However, Steinhoff died in prison in 2007.
In August 2011, Bright's family stated they presumed him dead and held a formal memorial service in his memory.