Anthony Catalano, 34, disappeared from his condominium at 8747 West Bryn Mawr Avenue in Chicago on the morning of March 25, 2009. Surveillance captured him leaving in his Mercedes-Benz; that is the last confirmed sighting. Family reported him missing after they could not reach him, and searches by relatives and friends focused on the far northwest side of the city, including a Cook County forest preserve near the Kennedy Expressway and River Road and high-traffic corridors such as Cumberland Avenue.

The Chicago Police Department opened an investigation and came to suspect foul play. Catalano was described as Caucasian, 5 feet 10 inches, 185 pounds, very muscular, with brown hair and brown eyes, a two-inch scar on the back of his neck and a thigh tattoo of the Italian flag with the word Italy. Reporting tied possible links to organized crime, drug trafficking and an alleged pill mill operation; one theory suggested he might have been killed in an Elk Grove warehouse and his body disposed of in Wisconsin. A close associate, Michael DeFillipis, was found murdered in his apartment around the same time.

No definitive answers have been reported and the case remains open. Did anyone in Chicago’s northwest side area around March 2009 see Catalano’s Mercedes-Benz or have information about his activities then?