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Phillip Alfred Montoya was 14 when he disappeared from Fremont, California, on March 29, 1974. That morning he told two classmates at Mission San Jose High School he planned to run away, borrowed two dollars to ride BART, and left his ten-speed bicycle chained to a pole at school. The nearest BART station was over four miles away. His mother reported him missing after he failed to come home.

Montoya did not fit the typical runaway profile: he took no extra clothes, had only the borrowed two dollars, and there were no known major problems at home. Several months later, friends of his older brother reported a possible sighting in the Warm Springs area; they had not realized he was missing at the time. No evidence of foul play has been found and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone who knew Phillip at Mission San Jose High School or in Warm Springs in 1974 see or hear anything that could help explain his disappearance?