Brian Allen Grocki was 14 when he disappeared from the Trenton, Michigan, area on October 16, 1990. He was last seen in the company of a friend; after that encounter he vanished and has not been seen or heard from since. Brian was about five feet six inches tall, 125 pounds, with blond or strawberry-blond hair, green eyes, a two-inch scar under his lower lip, a scar on his right wrist, and a burn scar on his right calf. He was wearing a quilted plaid shirt, a jacket, blue jeans, and white tennis shoes.

Accounts of Brian’s final movements conflict. The friend initially said Brian left to walk home between midnight and 1:00 a.m., then later claimed they had planned to run away together. Brian’s parents say he showed no signs of wanting to leave and left behind a new backpack and roughly $300 worth of new clothes and shoes. Investigators have identified several persons of interest over the years, including boys about Brian’s age and an older man who reportedly roughhoused with local boys and once made a disturbing remark about being able to kill Brian. No one has been held accountable, and the case remains open.

Does anyone who lived in Trenton in 1990 remember Brian, the friend he was with that night, or the older man who hung around behind City Hall?