Chester Ralph Wetmore was 14 when he left his family’s home in Bradenton, Florida, on the evening of May 27, 1986, and was last seen wearing jeans, a blue checkered shirt, and boots. Initially treated as an endangered runaway, he never returned and has not been seen since.

In 2012 James P. Barnes, a convicted murderer on Florida’s death row, confessed during a documentary interview that he encountered Chester, helped him hide, then killed and buried him after an alleged theft. Barnes has not been charged in Chester’s disappearance and no body or physical evidence has been recovered. The case remains open and officially unsolved.

Does anyone have information about Chester’s last movements in Bradenton or remember seeing a 14-year-old matching his description around May 27, 1986?