Bruce Whitford was 49 and a resident of Grand Island, New York, when he was last heard from on October 19, 2006. Two days later his black GMC Envoy was found parked on Vanderbilt Avenue in Niagara Falls, directly across from the Devil’s Hole Gorge — a place he often visited as an avid fisherman who liked to watch the fish.

The weekend after the vehicle was found, large-scale searches involving the Erie County Sheriff’s Department, the Coast Guard, the State Police, family and friends combed the gorge and the Niagara River but found no sign of Bruce. Further searches in the days and weeks that followed also produced no new information, and no significant leads have been reported since.

The investigation remains open and the family has issued public appeals for information. Does anyone who fished or spent time around Devil’s Hole Gorge in October 2006 remember seeing Bruce or his Envoy?