James Michael Couto was 22 when he was last seen by a relative in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, on January 2, 1992. He was living in North Dartmouth on the 1000 block of Cross Road at the time. A year later his grandmother received a phone call from someone she believed to be James; that was the last possible contact the family had.

James is described as a Caucasian male with brown hair and brown or possibly hazel eyes, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 180 to 200 pounds. He had a pierced ear, thin lips, and both big toenails had been removed because of severe ingrown nails. The Lakeville Police Department is handling the investigation and the case remains listed in national missing persons databases.

Did anyone in the southern United States or along the Massachusetts coast ever encounter James or hear from him after January 1992?