Dominick A. Pendino, 36, vanished from his Newburgh, New York driveway on the morning of March 3, 1999. His wife saw him preparing to leave for work at about 5:50 a.m., dressed in blue jeans, an Auto Auction t-shirt, a green waist-length coat and black sneakers. He was 5 feet 8 inches, about 180 pounds, with hazel eyes, a mustache, a shaved head, a pierced left ear and had lost the use of one arm in a prior motorcycle accident.

Around 7:00 a.m. his car was still in the driveway and a trail of blood led away from the vehicle. Investigators found a significant amount of blood at the scene and concluded he likely could not have survived the injury. An extensive search turned up no trace of his body.

Two friends, Gregory Chrysler and Larry Weygant, were arrested two months later; trial testimony described Chrysler believing Pendino had informed on his marijuana business. Prosecutors said Chrysler and Weygant beat Pendino with a baseball bat near his home. Both were convicted in 2000 of murder and conspiracy; both received 25 years to life and have not revealed the location of Pendino’s remains despite searches in Marlboro and Montgomery.

Did anyone who knew Dominick or his circle around Newburgh in 1999 ever hear talk of where he might have been taken?