Ronald Brett Kinser, 25, disappeared from Bowling Green, Kentucky after a single-car crash shortly before midnight on December 23, 1993. He was driving his grandmother’s car on Cumberland Trace Road near the family home on Cemetery Road when the vehicle overturned and was totaled. Passersby who stopped found him with only a minor cut on his forehead; when they said law enforcement had been called he thanked them and ran into a nearby field and was never seen again.

Search dogs and a helicopter were used the next day but turned up nothing. Kinser had left without his wallet and reportedly had less than five dollars on him. His mother, a deputy with the Warren County Sheriff’s Department, said he had a history of drug abuse and a prior short jail term for drug possession, prompting suggestions he might have been fleeing people from the drug world or trying to avoid legal trouble. His grandmother, to whom he was close, later died and he was not at the funeral.

Authorities have released an age-progressed image and kept the case open; his Social Security number remains inactive. The crash so near home, his flight at the scene, and the lack of any trace since that December night remain unexplained. Did anyone in the Bowling Green area see Brett or the overturned car that night, or have information about his movements before or after the crash?