In the winter of 1994, a 50-year-old man named William Robinson, also known to friends and family as 'Worm' or 'Willie,' vanished from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The last confirmed sighting of him was on February 25, 1994, when he was leaving his parents' home in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of the city. He was reportedly on his way back to a room he rented on North 23rd Street, near West Venango Street.
From that point on, no one in his circle reported hearing from him again. At the time of his disappearance, William was described as a Black / African American male, standing at 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing approximately 175 pounds. He had brown, wavy hair and brown eyes.
William had several distinguishing physical characteristics that would make him easily identifiable. He had a scar on his lip. More notably, due to a past case of frostbite, he was missing the tips of three fingers on his right hand and the tips of two fingers on his left hand. The circumstances surrounding what he was wearing at the time he went missing are unknown, as is any mode of transportation he may have been using. The case of his disappearance was officially created on May 19, 2010, many years after he was last seen.
Decades have passed since William Robinson was last seen, and his case remains unsolved. The Philadelphia Police Department is the investigating agency, but few details about the investigation have been made public over the years. His disappearance is one of many cold cases in the Philadelphia area, a city that, like many large urban centers, has a significant number of unsolved missing persons and homicide cases. The lack of available information in the public record makes it difficult to understand the full scope of the investigation. The overview of this case is one of quiet uncertainty; a man left his parents' home one day, intending to return to his own, and was never definitively seen or heard from again, leaving behind a mystery that has endured for years.Last Seen: Feb 26, 1994
