Nieko Lisi was 18 when he was last seen by family in Addison, New York on September 30, 2011. He and a friend, 20-year-old Robert Knight, told relatives they were headed to Buffalo, possibly for a camping trip, and were driving a gray 2004 GMC Canyon pickup. The last family contact came by phone on October 1, 2011; that day the phone’s final tower ping was in Franklin, Tennessee at 4:08 p.m., and there were possible sightings in the Franklin and Nashville areas.

After October 1, Knight told his parents in Romulus, Michigan that Nieko had dropped him off, but no one reported seeing Nieko. Nieko’s mother received his driver’s license in the mail on October 3 after it was found on a street in Hornell, New York, and his Facebook account was deactivated. Knight was interviewed by Michigan police on October 8, held for a psychiatric evaluation, and was found dead of a drug overdose on October 10. In July 2016 the GMC Canyon was recovered stripped and locked inside a garage at a private Nashville residence, strengthening suspicions of foul play. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation continues to list the disappearance as active.

If anyone has information about Nieko’s movements in Tennessee in late September or early October 2011, please come forward.