A Quiet Name in a Vast City of the MissingIn the massive sprawl of Los Angeles, thousands of missing and murdered people are reduced to brief database entries, and among them is 32-year-old Justo ...

A routine workday that never endedOn the morning of December 14, 1984, forty-five-year-old Howard Sherwin Tokarsky began his day in Los Angeles like any other workday. He lived in the Granada Hills ...

Case Overview: A Disappearance Frozen in 1985On March 11, 1985, 37-year-old Roy Edward Mitts Jr. vanished from Concord, California, leaving behind a mystery that has remained unsolved for four ...

Background of the Disappearance On September 7, 1985, 18-year-old James Ray Wall was last seen by family members in the area of Thomasville, Alabama. At the time, he was described as a young white ...

Background and personal profile On November 3, 1985, 19-year-old Richard R. Banyots disappeared from his hometown of Girard, Ohio. At the time of his disappearance he was described as Caucasian, ...

Who Was Rogest Cain?Rogest Cain was a devoted father and longtime employee of Los Angeles’ Department of Parks and Recreation. Family and colleagues described him as steady and reliable—a man who ...

OverviewRamon Antonio Capellan vanished from Miami on March 16, 1986, leaving behind a slender thread of facts and a long trail of questions. Official records classify him as missing, and over the ...

A Vanishing in the BronxOn the morning of August 10, 1986, 35-year-old Rita H. Fioretti was last seen in New York City’s Bronx—specifically the City Island community where she lived with her two ...