Rudy Morales was 25 when he was last seen in Phoenix in the early 1970s. He lived in a group home near 12th Street and Roosevelt and left the home on a bicycle; he never returned and was not heard from again. The Phoenix Police Department reopened the matter as a cold case and the official report was filed on October 24, 2015.

Rudy had brain damage from anesthesia after a bowel reconstruction surgery at about age seven or eight, a condition that could have made communication difficult. He reportedly had scars on his stomach from that operation. Descriptions list him as Hispanic and White/Caucasian, between 5 feet 6 inches and 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 165 to 180 pounds, with brown hair and almond-shaped brown eyes. He may have been wearing a dress shirt, Levi’s jeans and tennis shoes, possibly white Converse All Stars, when he left.

Links to other unidentified remains have been explored, including a 1979 John Doe from Imperial County, California, who also had brain damage, but differences such as scar location leave those connections unconfirmed. Does anyone have memories of Rudy, that 12th Street and Roosevelt group home, or information about a bicycle seen in the area in the early 1970s?