Eugene Bartlebaugh was 22 when he vanished from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was last seen June 9, 1976, after being at the auto repair shop where he worked on South Sixth Avenue with his wife. The wife says a man to whom she owed $300 arrived armed, spoke privately with Eugene, and then left with him in a car; Eugene never returned to his wife’s sight.

Police interviewed the man the wife identified; he denied recent contact, saying he had not seen Eugene for a few weeks. A conflicting account places Eugene elsewhere that same day: reportedly picked up near Green Ridge Street and North Main Avenue after car trouble. Those two versions leave the timeline and Eugene’s fate unresolved.

Who in Scranton in 1976 might remember either the man at the repair shop or the reported car-trouble sighting near Green Ridge and North Main?