Edward Sylvio Demers, known as Ed, was 60 when he left his Johnsburg, Illinois home on Florence Drive for a routine walk on the morning of October 13, 2003, and never returned. He had Alzheimer’s disease and left without his eyeglasses or any identification. He was described as a white male, 5 feet 10 inches, about 180 pounds, with graying hair, brown eyes and an East Coast accent. That afternoon a witness saw him about 4:00 PM on Bay Road near Cuhlman Road by the Pistakee Country Club; that is the last confirmed sighting.

Search teams followed a scent trail with bloodhounds to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church on West Church Street and divers searched the Fox River, but no trace of him was found. In 2011 he was declared legally dead, but there has been no recovery of remains or definitive explanation for what happened. If anyone knew Ed, his routines, or saw him in the Johnsburg, Fox Lake or McHenry area that day, can you share information that might help close this case?