Edward Fonder, 80, vanished from his Springfield Township, Pennsylvania, property on the morning of August 25, 1993. His daughter, Mary Jane Fonder, said she prepared breakfast about 7:00 a.m., heard her father get up, open and close the refrigerator, and assumed he went to fetch the newspaper. When she later found him gone and the paper uncollected, she contacted police around 11:00 a.m.

Edward was a retired machinist in poor health after recent heart valve surgery and two hip replacements; he used a cane and took heart medication that was left at home. Searchers and bloodhounds followed his scent only to the end of the long driveway, where the trail stopped, consistent with the possibility he entered a vehicle. His wallet turned up in an Allentown mailbox the following May, wiped of fingerprints but otherwise intact.

Relations in the household were strained; Mary Jane later made troubling statements to police and the home was found in disarray with a dog’s body in the freezer. Mary Jane ultimately became the sole suspect and collected Edward’s pension for 15 years. Searches of the property with ground-penetrating radar after the house was demolished found no remains. No charges were filed in Edward’s disappearance.

Did anyone in the area know Edward’s routines that morning or see a vehicle near the end of that long driveway?