Samuel J. DeLarso, 53, was last seen in the pre-dawn hours of a Saturday in October 2018 after leaving his home on 2nd Street in Somers Point, New Jersey, to go crabbing. Family members saw him before he left; he was reportedly headed to Ocean City to get bait for a planned family fishing trip later that afternoon. His green Ford Expedition was found the same day parked on West Newcastle Road in Ocean City near the Ocean City-Longport Bridge with his cell phone and fishing rods inside. His crabbing bucket was not in the vehicle, suggesting he may have reached the water. He was believed to be wearing blue jeans, a button-down shirt, and waders.

A multiagency search followed: the U.S. Coast Guard, New Jersey State Police Marine Unit, Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office and Ocean City Police Department all took part. The Coast Guard conducted a 12-hour search the Sunday after he was reported missing but turned up no trace; the search was eventually suspended. The case remains an active investigation and an unresolved loss for his family. If anyone was in the Ocean City–Longport Bridge area on that October morning or has information about Samuel’s movements that day, please come forward.