Thomas P. Grabenschroer was 44 years old when he was last seen in Papillion, Nebraska, on August 13, 2004. Publicly available case listings describe him as a white male with brown hair and blue eyes, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and 150 pounds, with a scar on his right wrist as a distinguishing feature. NamUs lists the case as Missing Person / NamUs #MP17320 and identifies the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office as the investigating agency, with the agency case number shown as 4934-0804.
The known public timeline is painfully brief. Thomas was last seen in Papillion in 2004, and the available case summaries do not describe what he was doing that day, who last saw him, whether he left on foot or by vehicle, or whether he had plans to travel. The Charley Project states that he “has never been heard from again” and notes that few details are available, while 411Gina gives the same basic circumstances: he was last seen in Papillion on August 13, 2004, and the public record contains very limited information about what happened afterward.
Because so little has been released publicly, Thomas’s case is one of those disappearances defined as much by absence as by evidence: an adult man vanished from Sarpy County, leaving behind only a date, a location, a physical description, and the hope that someone may still remember something useful. His profile has remained visible through missing-person databases and advocacy sites, including NamUs, The Charley Project, 411Gina, Uncovered, and the International Missing Persons Wiki, all of which repeat the same narrow but important core facts about his disappearance from Papillion.
The Nebraska State Patrol maintains a statewide missing-persons search system that allows the public to search by name, gender, race, age classification, and reporting agency, reflecting how cases like Thomas’s remain part of a broader network of public records and law-enforcement attention in Nebraska. In Thomas’s case, the listed investigating agency is the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office in Papillion, the community where he was last seen. The available information does not provide a clear explanation for his disappearance, and no public source reviewed gives a detailed account of confirmed sightings, evidence, or a known resolution. The case begins with Thomas Grabenschroer last seen in Papillion on August 13, 2004, and continues as a sparse, unresolved missing-person case centered on a 44-year-old man whose family and community were left with few answers, a limited public record, and the enduring need for information that could explain what happened to him.
Last Seen: Aug 13, 2004
