Jesus A. Cordero was 17 when he left his North Bergen, New Jersey home in the late summer of 1985 planning to go to 54th Street in neighboring West New York. He was wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt, and white tennis shoes when he departed and never returned.

A note left behind said he needed a change and that he intended to leave, possibly for Venezuela, his country of birth. That message led investigators and his family to consider a voluntary disappearance and raised the possibility he traveled internationally, but it also meant the trail could quickly cross jurisdictions. Beyond the note and documentation of his last known movements, leads were sparse and the case went cold.

Did anyone in the North Bergen or Venezuelan communities remember seeing Jesus after that summer in 1985 or have information about where he might have gone?