Raul Ruelas was 38 when he was last seen in San Antonio on December 26, 1997. He worked at a local tire shop and, after his shift that day, reportedly accepted a ride from an unidentified man driving a brown Chevrolet 210 series pickup. After getting into that truck he was never seen or heard from again.

Ruelas sometimes used the nickname Bule. He was described as Hispanic and White/Caucasian, with black hair, brown eyes and a black mustache. When last seen he wore a brown jacket, red shirt, black pants and black dress shoes. The truck and the man who picked him up have never been identified, and the case went cold despite later efforts to generate leads. The San Antonio Police Department is the investigating agency and the case is entered in NamUs as MP7984.

The key unanswered question remains who was driving that brown Chevrolet pickup and where he took Raul after leaving the tire shop. If anyone has information about Raul, the pickup, or that day in 1997, please come forward.