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Rocco Arthur Recchia, 65, was last seen in Poughkeepsie, New York, on the evening of June 24, 1988, walking toward the local train station carrying a brown overnight bag. He was described as white, 5 feet 10 inches, 230–250 pounds, with gray balding hair and blue eyes. At the time he wore a light blue fedora, a light blue sport coat, a short-sleeve pink shirt, light gray dress pants and brown dress shoes. He wore prescription glasses and a Timex watch with Roman numerals. Distinguishing marks included scars on his abdomen, scars on his right fingers and upper left arm, and pockmarks on his face.

That morning Recchia had gotten a haircut and told someone he was heading to his brother’s house; he left his bottom dentures behind and was expected at his nephew’s wedding the next day, which he did not attend. Decades earlier he had sustained a brain injury and struggled with depression and other mental health issues, though it is not known whether those factors relate to his disappearance. The City of Poughkeepsie Police opened an investigation the day after he was last seen, but the case went cold and remains unsolved.

Did anyone know where Rocco spent his time in Poughkeepsie in June 1988 or recall seeing a man matching his description near the train station that evening?