Richard Wease, a 63-year-old African American man, was last seen in St. Louis, Missouri, on the evening of January 19, 2005, at about 7:00 PM. Descriptions vary slightly: he was between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet 3 inches tall, weighed between 170 and 200 pounds, had brown eyes and a short black-and-gray afro. That evening is the last confirmed sighting or contact with him.

Very few details about the circumstances are known. It is not publicly reported what he was wearing, where he was headed, or what his state of mind might have been. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has kept the case open, but investigators reportedly had few leads and the trail has remained cold.

The lack of concrete information has left family and the community with unanswered questions about what happened to Richard Wease. If anyone was in north or south St. Louis on January 19, 2005, or remembers seeing a man matching his description that evening, any information could be important to the open investigation.