Haidar Abushaqra, known as Harry, was 40 and a father of six when he vanished from Manchester, Connecticut. On the evening of December 7, 2011, he made a final call to his wife at 8:24 p.m., saying he’d been in a work meeting and would be home by 9:00 p.m. He was last seen at the car dealership he owned at 369 Main Street. The next morning his Mercedes was found abandoned in the dealership parking lot; the car keys were reportedly located about a week later inside a garage on the property.

The day of the disappearance involved a dispute with mechanics renting garage space at the dealership over unpaid rent. Abushaqra called his brother during the evening to say the mechanics were scaring him and asked for help, then later called back to say everything was fine. The mechanics deny knowing what happened and declined polygraph testing. Months earlier, in June 2011, Abushaqra had been arrested on two counts of larceny in the first degree, and authorities have considered whether he might have left the country. The case remains unresolved and his family has had no definitive answers.