Richard Neil Forsyth was 41 when reported missing to Iowa authorities on January 13, 1994, but he had last been seen years earlier, on October 18, 1979. He lived in Waterloo, Iowa, and after 1979 traveled around the country — his movements include Manhattan, Kansas, and Tucson, Arizona, where family and investigators traced him to an uncle’s home only to find he had already left.

Forsyth’s disappearance has been linked in some accounts to the earlier vanishing of Steven Kirchhoff, a known drug dealer who disappeared from the same area in January 1978. Reports say Forsyth was seen carrying something wrapped in a rug shortly after Kirchhoff vanished and that he bought a 1972 Cadillac with $100 bills soon after that disappearance. Forsyth’s Cadillac was later found abandoned in Grand Forks, North Dakota. No conclusive evidence has tied Forsyth to Kirchhoff or explained Forsyth’s own disappearance.

Anyone who knew Richard, saw his Cadillac, or has information about his movements in 1979–1994 is asked to come forward.