Charles Conner, known as Chuck, was 37 and a factory foreman when he disappeared from Lima, Ohio after an incident on his birthday, August 10, 1957. That evening he was drinking in the kitchen of Ralph Forsythe’s home on east McKibben Street with three other men. Forsythe allegedly accused Conner of stealing a gun and shot him in the head; the other men fled and one later told a bartender what had happened. When police reached the house they found bloodstains and a bullet hole in the wall, but no sign of Conner, Forsythe, or Forsythe’s wife. Forsythe was located and arrested about 24 hours later and was convicted of manslaughter in December 1957.

Evidence presented at trial included testimony from a park caretaker in Cadiz who said he saw Forsythe and his wife washing a Ford Courier and that blood-stained rags, clothing, and newspapers were left at the site; the vehicle later contained water and human blood. Forsythe claimed the shooting had been a joke and the gun held blanks.

Two weeks before his disappearance Conner had divorced; his ex-wife died in 1960 and his parents later died without learning his fate. What information might finally explain where Charles Conner’s body went and who saw him last alive?