Rogest Cain was 61 when he disappeared from Los Angeles on February 18, 1986. He told his sister he was going to a local hardware store that afternoon and did not return. The next day he called a neighbor to say he wasn’t feeling well and would miss work; that call was the last confirmed contact.

In the days after his disappearance police reportedly encountered a confused man who gave them his sister’s number but left before she arrived. His car was found about 20 miles from home a month later with his eyeglasses, dentures and important documents, including the deed to his house. A mechanic at a nearby gas station said Cain appeared disoriented, with slurred speech and an unsteady walk. His phone card was used after he vanished, with calls to numbers in classified ads, suggesting attempts to seek work while possibly unaware of his identity.

There was a possible sighting in Topeka, Kansas, of a man using the name Elmer Jackson who resembled Cain, had a matching scar and was missing dentures; that lead could not be confirmed before the man disappeared. He was declared legally dead in 1995 but the whereabouts of Rogest Cain remain unknown. Did anyone in Los Angeles or Topeka know Rogest or see him around February 1986?