Steven Douglas Bunch, 26, vanished from Covington, Kentucky after an evening in Cincinnati on December 28, 1985. He had been driving a rental car because his own vehicle was recently wrecked. After several hours at a nightclub, the rental’s battery died around 2:00 a.m.; a female friend gave him a ride back to his parents’ home on Warren Street, where he was living.

According to the friend, Steven was unusually anxious and kept looking over his shoulder; he calmed only after a police car stopped following them. He went inside his parents’ house for a few minutes, then told his mother someone was coming to pick him up. His father followed him outside and watched him walk into the backyard, the last confirmed sighting. Searchers later found the scarf he had been wearing in nearby woods, and the rental car — left at the club — was recovered several blocks from the lot.

Rumors tied his disappearance to recent testimony he gave in a criminal case and to possible entry into witness protection, but those claims were never confirmed. Does anyone who lived in the Covington or Cincinnati area in late 1985 recall anything about that night or about Steven’s movements afterward?