Bryan Keith Gomez was 48 years old when he was last known to have been seen in Cavendish, Vermont, on June 10, 2010. According to NamUs case MP34478 and the attached case data, he was reported missing on July 6, 2010, after a neighbor had not seen him for several weeks. The attached case information also states that, after the initial report, Gomez’s caseworker requested a welfare check because they had not heard from him since June 1, 2010.
He was described as a White/Caucasian male with brown hair and hazel eyes, about 5 feet 5 inches tall and 140 pounds. His case was investigated by the Vermont State Police - Westminster.
For years, efforts to determine what happened to Gomez were unsuccessful. Public reporting from Vermont State Police-based accounts says investigators did not locate him after he was reported missing, and the case remained unresolved for more than a decade. His disappearance appears to have been discovered not through a known witnessed incident, but through concern from people who expected to hear from or see him and realized that contact had stopped. That detail gives the case a particularly quiet and painful character: Gomez was not immediately found, but he also was not forgotten by those who noticed his absence and sought help.
A significant development came years later, after a hunter found a human skull in the woods in Cavendish in November 2020 and reported the discovery to police. Forensic examiners obtained DNA from the remains and compared the genetic profile with DNA associated with Gomez’s siblings. Vermont Public reported that the comparison showed strong support for relatedness, and Vermont State Police announced in June 2024 that the skull had been positively identified as belonging to Bryan Gomez.
Gomez is therefore no longer simply an unresolved missing person in the ordinary sense: he has been located deceased and positively identified. However, the available public information indicates that only partial remains were recovered, and the attached NamUs data states that because only partial remains were found, the case will remain active in NamUs. Public reports also state that investigators have not determined the cause or manner of his death. Exact details about when Gomez died are not publicly clear from the available sources, so the date of death should be considered unknown based on the information currently available.
The identification brought a measure of answers after many years, but it did not fully explain what happened to Gomez after he was last seen in June 2010. The case remains marked by unanswered questions: how he came to be in the area where the remains were later found, what circumstances led to his death, and whether additional evidence may still exist. What is known is that Bryan Keith Gomez was a man from Cavendish whose absence was reported by concerned members of his community, whose remains were eventually identified through DNA, and whose case still deserves careful attention and compassion for the people who waited years for answers.Last Seen: Jun 10, 2010
