Joe Anthony Mendoza, also known by the alias Ricky Anthony Meza, vanished from Greensboro, North Carolina after he was last seen on December 10, 2004. The disappearance was not reported until December 22, 2004. The delay in filing the report and the absence of reliable information about his last movements or what he was wearing have left major gaps in the timeline.

Mendoza was 50 at the time and is described as Hispanic and White/Caucasian, five feet seven inches tall and weighing 150 to 180 pounds, with graying hair and brown eyes. He had multiple distinctive tattoos — KARATE, images of girls on his left arm, Loco on his left finger, and an hourglass on his left hand — and a scar running ear to ear across his throat from a laceration sustained on December 22, 2000.

The Greensboro Police Department continues to list the case as open. Very little is known about Mendoza’s final hours, and those gaps remain central to the mystery of his disappearance. If anyone knew Joe, saw him in Greensboro in December 2004, or has information about his whereabouts, please come forward.