Michael Joseph Madore was 32 years old when he was last seen in Milo, Maine, on April 6, 1996. He was a White man with brown hair and brown eyes, described as about 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing between 165 and 175 pounds. At the time he disappeared, he was reported to be wearing thermal long underwear, blue dress pants, and a gray-and-black V-neck sweater with two colored stripes on the front, possibly with a second gray sweater as well. He wore glasses, and identifying details included a scar above one eye and another scar on one thigh. The official NamUs case for Michael lists him under Missing Person case MP51757, with Milo Police Department as the investigating agency and the date of last contact recorded as April 6, 1996.
The known account of Michael’s disappearance centers on a simple but haunting detail: he was reportedly riding a ten-speed bicycle and was believed to be headed toward the Bangor or Brewer area. That image has remained at the heart of the case for decades, a man leaving Milo on a bicycle in early April and then vanishing without a confirmed trace. According to the case information available through NamUs and the Charley Project, no confirmed destination, arrival, or later contact has been publicly documented. Friends reported him missing two days later, and the case became one in which the absence of information itself grew heavy; there was no steady trail, no verified relocation, and no clear explanation for why Michael never returned or reached anyone who knew him.
Some later reporting and missing-person advocacy summaries describe letters or notes found after Michael disappeared, suggesting that he might have intended to leave behind his home, belongings, and dogs and go to Alaska. Those accounts have been presented as part of the early uncertainty surrounding the case, but they have not resolved it. Private Investigations for the Missing states that friends believed they were supposed to meet him and found a note indicating he was going to Alaska and leaving his possessions, including his two dogs, behind; the same summary says there is no indication he ever made it to Alaska. Dark Downeast likewise describes the Alaska explanation as one of the first theories police heard, while emphasizing that nearly three decades passed without any sign of life or evidence that he had successfully started over somewhere else.
Maine authorities have continued to treat Michael’s disappearance as unresolved. The Maine State Police page for Michael Madore states that investigative efforts have not produced any alternate addresses or any indication that he is living at another location. News Center Maine reported in 2021 that the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit was still searching for him 25 years after he was last seen, and in 2026 reported renewed efforts to locate him 30 years after the disappearance. WGME also reported in 2026 that police were again asking the public for help in the long-running mystery, noting that little else had been publicly released by authorities beyond the fact that Michael was last seen in Milo and that investigators had found no evidence he was living somewhere else.
The passage of time has made Michael Madore’s case especially painful for those who care about him, because the public record preserves only fragments of an ordinary life interrupted: his name, his age, the town where he was last seen, the clothing he may have been wearing, the bicycle, the possible direction of travel, and the unanswered question of what happened after he left. His case remains tied to Milo and to the wider Bangor/Brewer area because that was the route he was reportedly taking, but official information has not established where the trail ended. In overview, Michael Joseph Madore was a 32-year-old man last seen in Milo, Maine, on April 6, 1996, reportedly riding a ten-speed bicycle toward the Bangor or Brewer area; he was later reported missing, investigators found no evidence that he was living elsewhere, and decades later Maine authorities and public missing-person databases continue to list the case as unresolved while seeking information that could finally explain what happened to him.
Last Seen: Apr 06, 1996
