Glenn Warren Pennie, 56, was last seen at his Airlie Road home near Monmouth on October 3, 2004, preparing for a planned trip to Oakland, California, to attend a court hearing about his late father’s estate. He told friends in California he would leave early the next morning, and had arranged for a neighbor to care for his cat and collect his mail. A few days later the neighbor found his Toyota Tacoma still in the driveway. The truck was unlocked and packed with his suitcase, snacks, business papers and other trip items; inside the house were a Bible and shaving kit but no signs of forced entry or struggle.

Investigators searched about 53 square miles by ground and air and found no activity on his bank accounts or cell phone. From the start the case was treated as a possible abduction or homicide rather than a voluntary disappearance, partly because Pennie stood to inherit the bulk of his father’s estate. His brother, Dale A. Pennie, was identified as a person of interest and interviewed repeatedly but has denied involvement and was never charged. A cold case team remains assigned and the outcome is still unknown.

Did anyone in the area around Monmouth in October 2004 see Glenn or his Tacoma, or overhear tensions within the family before he vanished?