Charles Hawkins, 63, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was last seen March 19, 1998, driving his pickup truck. He had a history of depression and three prior suicide attempts; his wife reported he had been suicidal around the time he vanished. Hawkins had worked 29 years as an agricultural manager at New Mexico State University and was fluent in Spanish.

On April 19, 1998 — one month after he disappeared — his pickup was recovered locked and abandoned in a desert arroyo near Las Cruces. A search of the area turned up no clues to his whereabouts. Hawkins had a large surgical scar on his left leg measuring about 8 to 9 inches long and 2 to 3 inches wide. He was legally declared dead on March 19, 2003, so his family could settle his estate.

There are no known leads explaining his sudden disappearance. Did anyone in the Las Cruces area remember seeing Hawkins or his truck in March or April 1998?