In the late morning of a fall day in 2018, 65-year-old Bu Quach walked out of the Manahawkin Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Stafford Township, New Jersey, and never returned. Surveillance footage shows him leaving the facility at about 11:40 a.m., wearing a red t-shirt, grey pants, socks and a yellow wristband. He is 5 feet 3 inches and about 120 pounds, with chin-length salt-and-pepper hair, a partially grown goatee, and fading Asian-letter tattoos on both forearms. He had been a resident since February 2018 and lived with dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, diabetes and PTSD, and spoke very little English, which his family says made the situation especially urgent.

Stafford Township Police, the New Jersey State Police Missing Person Unit and the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department conducted extensive searches focused on the nursing home vicinity and the Ocean Acres/Barnegat Township border, using K-9 teams, drones and reverse 911 alerts. A possible sighting near Treasure Avenue and Lighthouse Drive on the evening he disappeared did not lead to locating him. Family-led searches and a community Facebook group have continued, and the family has pursued legal action against the nursing facility. No credible sightings or significant developments have been reported since the initial days; the case remains open.

If anyone saw Bu Quach in the Manahawkin or Ocean Acres area around that time or has information that could help, please come forward.