Richard Jargowsky Jr., 46, disappeared from Upper Township, New Jersey after a suspicious house fire on February 8, 2008. He called his mother about 2:30 a.m. saying his home on Homestead Road was on fire and that he was afraid to call police because the house was in foreclosure and he feared being suspected of arson. His mother called 911. By the time crews arrived the house was burned to the ground and Richard was not at the scene.

A neighbor reported a last confirmed sighting: Richard walking away from the burning house toward Narrows Road with an unidentified man; the neighbor exchanged greetings with him. Searches including a State Police helicopter of the surrounding woods found no sign of him. Investigators found no evidence he died in the fire and the cause of the blaze was never definitively determined. Family said he was undergoing a divorce, had one son, and faced an upcoming sheriff’s sale, though his mother later said he had signed an agreement to sell the house hours before the fire. There has been no activity on his phone or debit card since.

Did anyone in the area see Richard after that night or know who the unidentified man might have been?