Timothy Moreau was 21 and a Reed College philosophy student when he vanished from Portland, Oregon, on or around January 23, 1990. He had taken a leave from school to work in the city’s music scene as promotions manager at the Starry Night nightclub and was called to a meeting there the night he disappeared. His blue Datsun was later found in long-term parking at Portland International Airport, apparently staged to suggest he had left town, while cash, checkbooks, and credit cards remained in his apartment.

Authorities came to regard the disappearance as a probable homicide about a year later, with club owner Larry Hurwitz identified as the primary suspect. Timothy’s parents, Mike and Penny Moreau, pressed investigators for answers. Years later a former employee, George Castagnola, confessed in 1998, saying he and Hurwitz had murdered Timothy and that Castagnola had driven the car to the airport; Castagnola pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years. Hurwitz pleaded no contest to aggravated murder in 2000 and later admitted killing Timothy in a wrongful death suit in 2001. Timothy’s body has never been found; searches for remains believed to be in a Skamania County, Washington, woodlot were unsuccessful.

Did anyone in the Portland music scene or at the Starry Night around 1990 see Timothy or notice unusual activity the week he vanished?