Vycheslav Arkadyevich Akoppv was 52 and living in Bladenboro, North Carolina, when he vanished after September 12, 1998. A model tenant and steady worker at Harriet and Henderson in Clarkton, he regularly sent money home to a wife and two children in Uzbekistan and often sheltered fellow Uzbek immigrants. On September 12 his landlord last saw him leaving in his light-colored, four-door 1987 Plymouth Caravelle with two younger men who had been staying with him. He never returned to work and his landlord later found his trailer in disarray; all his belongings remained except for a small Uzbek/English dictionary and the two men were gone.

Two paychecks were never cashed and roughly $500 to $600 he likely carried was missing. Extensive inquiries have failed to locate Akoppv, his car, or the two men. Skeletal remains found near Wilmington sometime after his disappearance matched a man of similar age and boots but were never positively identified.

Does anyone have information about Akoppv, the 1987 Plymouth Caravelle, or the two men seen with him on September 12, 1998?