Paul David Sanders was 17 when he left home after an argument with his father in the late hours of August 11 or early August 12, 2001, in Globe/Mesa, Arizona. He drove his father’s silver Chevrolet pickup to Globe to visit his grandmother and was last seen after leaving her home. At disappearance he was described as biracial, 5 feet 8 inches, 145–150 pounds, with brown hair, hazel eyes, and a tattoo reading Hernandez across his back. He was wearing a medium blue Billabong t-shirt, dark denim shorts, and white K‑Swiss shoes.

Two days later the pickup was stopped in Tucson for a minor violation but fled before the officer could identify the driver. After a high-speed chase that was called off for weather, the truck was found wrecked and abandoned on a steep hill in the Sierra Catalina Mountains. Paul’s wallet, driver’s license and cell phone were under the seat and the keys were on the console; cash from a recently cashed paycheck was missing. His family says he kept regular contact and would not have disappeared without notice; his mother later died by suicide in 2020.

The Mesa Police Department continues to list this as an unsolved missing-person case. Did anyone in Globe, Mesa or along the Tucson–Sierra Catalina corridor see Paul or the pickup in mid‑August 2001?