Kori Glossett, a white man with brown hair and eyes who stood about 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 8 inches and weighed 160 to 180 pounds, disappeared from Van Wert County, Ohio, in the early summer of 2016. His last confirmed contact was a phone call with his father on his 25th birthday. Just over a week later a friend, Dale H. Gear, bonded him out of jail; Gear said Kori spent the night at his Middle Point home and that he dropped him off in Van Wert the next morning. Kori never resurfaced. He did not have a driver’s license at the time and his cellphone was left behind. He was last seen wearing a blue long-sleeved button-up shirt with white stripes, white dress pants, black dress shoes, eyeglasses and a hoop nose ring, and he had numerous tattoos described in reports.

Investigators later searched Gear’s property and in August 2021 he was indicted on charges of tampering with evidence after multiple suspected blood samples were found in his home, garage and pickup; forensic testing matched three of those samples to Kori and authorities said the volume of blood was not consistent with a minor injury. The case remains open and active.

If anyone knew Kori, saw him in Van Wert County in the early summer of 2016, or has information about his whereabouts or the search, please come forward.