Peter Joseph Bonick was 17 when he disappeared from San Mateo, California, on February 22, 1970. He was last seen leaving his home on Ginnever Street that morning and was later spotted hitchhiking on State Route 92, possibly headed toward Half Moon Bay. He was wearing a beige or yellow shirt and blue jeans and had scoliosis that left one shoulder blade higher than the other. Bonick had been living in a children’s home in La Honda and was home on a weekend pass when he vanished.

An 18-year-old friend, Richard Lamson, also disappeared the same day, and it is believed the two left together. Unconfirmed sightings surfaced later — a report of Bonick at the Mayfair Market about a month after the disappearance and a 1977 claim by a former classmate who said they saw him at the San Mateo County Fair — but neither sighting has been verified. The circumstances of both disappearances remain unresolved. Anyone with information about Peter Bonick or Richard Lamson is asked to come forward.