Johnnie Halbert Ball, 60, vanished from his Delaware County, Oklahoma home on a September night in 1988 after an unusual sequence of events. A vehicle pulled up and the driver honked; Ball walked out, got into a green Dodge and was never seen again. The next day, while his wife was at work, someone entered the house and removed some of Ball’s clothing and a puppy.

The day before he disappeared Ball told his brother-in-law he expected to come into a large sum of money and said if things went as planned he would be set for life. He never accessed Social Security benefits after becoming eligible, which his family views as suspicious. Multiple searches, including wells, produced no confirmed trace of him; a 2005 search turned up an empty brown billfold and parts of a shoe or boot that have not been verified as his. A prime suspect was later identified but has since died.

Anyone who knew Ball, saw a green Dodge in Kansas, Oklahoma in September 1988, or has information about the reported windfall is asked to come forward.