Douglas E. Goodwin was 18 when he disappeared from Rome, New York, in early June 1990. At the time he had recently left his parents’ home and was staying intermittently in Utica with his girlfriend and her mother; he was enrolled in a graphic arts program and the girlfriend was pregnant. Douglas vanished before he could collect his belongings and never met his son.

The last confirmed sighting was June 8, 1990, as he left DJ’s bar on Martin Street in Rome with a 16-year-old coworker, Mark Seelman. Eyewitnesses say the pair spoke with an unidentified man in the bar parking lot around 12:30 AM and may have left in a green late-1970s Chevrolet Malibu or Nova. Mark Seelman also disappeared that night.

Over the years investigators pursued many leads, including a 2001 identity-theft incident in Missouri involving Mark Seelman’s name and Social Security number, which proved unrelated. The case remains unsolved and the families continue to seek answers.

Did anyone in Rome or Utica know Douglas’s routines or recall that night at DJ’s who the unidentified man might have been?