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Martin Alan Gentry, 23, disappeared from his Rancho Cordova, California, home on July 20, 1986. On the day he vanished he took a phone call, changed clothes and left intending to meet a woman at a local Circle K to buy marijuana; he never returned. His mother reported him missing six days later.

Shortly after the disappearance an anonymous tip said Gentry had been shot. Joseph Stanley, described as Gentry’s best friend, was charged in the case. Stanley told authorities he had been coerced at gunpoint to lure Gentry and that he saw an unknown person shoot him off Prairie City Road in Sacramento. Christina Allen, who was Stanley’s girlfriend at the time, later alleged Stanley had confessed to shooting Gentry. Stanley was tried twice in 1990; both trials ended in mistrials when juries could not reach verdicts, and he was not retried. Gentry’s body has never been found and the case remains unresolved.

Does anyone have information about Martin’s last known movements, the Circle K meeting, or Prairie City Road around July 20, 1986?