On the morning of September 15, 2012, 76-year-old Cecil Socrates Mann left his Port Orchard, Washington, home on Harper Hill Road Southeast planning to go fishing and was last seen at the residence about 10:00 a.m. A gas station clerk in South Kitsap reported seeing him around 1:00 p.m. that day and said he appeared confused. Cecil was recovering from prostate cancer and had moved from Oregon about ten months earlier.

Two days later, on September 17, Cecil attempted a phone call to his daughter that was unintelligible because of poor reception; cell records show the call came from the Jefferson County area and his phone was turned off afterward. That same day his blue 2007 Ford Focus was found abandoned on a rough 4x4 mountain road to Tunnel Creek Trail, about ten miles southwest of Quilcene, with fishing gear inside and heavy undercarriage damage. His family says he didn’t suffer from conditions that would make him wander or that he was suicidal.

A ground search and rescue was conducted but no trace of Cecil was found. The location of the car—far from any fishing spots and reportedly in an area he had never visited—remains unexplained. If anyone saw Cecil Mann or his blue 2007 Ford Focus around mid-September 2012, please share what was seen or where he might have gone.