Kevin Mitchell Kulek vanished after leaving a Michigan rehabilitation facility in mid-September 2001. He checked himself out of the Au Sable drug and alcohol program on September 16, 2001, and was last seen the next day when he went to Dean Arbour Ford in West Branch and asked to borrow his son’s truck. When that request was refused he walked north from the dealership and no confirmed sighting followed.

Kulek was described as a white male, 6 feet 1 inch and about 220 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes and a mustache or goatee. He may have been wearing University of Michigan sweatpants and either a Star Wars T-shirt or a Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild shirt. A Sunoco clerk in Pinconning later reported that a man matching his description got into a southbound semi on M-13; the driver, company and destination were not identified and investigators did not publicly confirm the lead.

There have been no confirmed calls, financial activity, medical contacts, arrests or verified sightings after September 2001. Anyone who knew Kevin, saw him around West Branch or Pinconning in mid-September 2001, or has information about a semi-truck traveling south on M-13 that day is asked to come forward.