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Joseph Newman's case is listed as a missing person, but a federal court has already decided what happened to him. Joseph, 34, was last seen in Canton, Ohio, on March 31, 1996. For months afterward, his Supplemental Security Income checks kept getting cashed.

The money led investigators to his roommate, David L. Mayle, who was convicted of forging and cashing those checks. He was never charged with murder, but the federal court found that he had killed Joseph to get the checks, treated it as relevant conduct, and raised his sentence because of it. The court noted that the fraud started exactly when Joseph disappeared and that Mayle had his belongings.

What's missing is Joseph himself. He was 6'7" or 6'8" with brown hair and a mustache, "Joe" tattooed on his hand, and scars on both legs, and his body has never been found. If you knew Joseph or Mayle in Canton in the mid-'90s, do you remember where Mayle spent his time or where he might have taken someone?