Gerald Arthur Nicholas, 44, was last seen on May 2, 2008, in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. A farmer living in Estate Bordeaux, he stood 5 feet 9 inches and weighed about 145 pounds. Neighbors reported him missing after not seeing him for several days.

Nicholas vanished while accompanied by a friend, Penny Louise January, also 44, who had been visiting from Illinois for roughly two weeks. Nicholas had told neighbors he planned to take January to Botany Bay to show her the ocean before she returned to the mainland. Neither person has been seen or heard from since that day. Searches of Nicholas’s apartment found it intact with no signs of a struggle, and searches of the Botany Bay area, which has steep cliffs, produced no leads.

The U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department investigated and has periodically appealed for information, but the circumstances of their disappearances remain unclear. If anyone knew Gerald’s routines, who he spent time with, or saw him or Penny around May 2, 2008, please share what was observed.