Joseph J. Kasak was 43 and living in Newington, Connecticut when he was last seen at his residence on May 9, 1980. His disappearance became puzzling the next morning when his vehicle was found after a single-car crash on Route 9 near the Elm Street overpass in Keene, New Hampshire, at about 5:10 a.m. The wrecked car was abandoned with no driver or passengers at the scene, and it is unknown whether Kasak was driving when the crash occurred.

Kasak is described as a white male with black hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 7 inches tall and about 185 pounds. Searches were conducted by the Newington and Keene police departments, but no evidence explaining his whereabouts after May 9 has been uncovered. The circumstances leave a substantial gap in the timeline between his last sighting at home and the car discovered in New Hampshire.

If anyone has information about Kasak’s movements in Connecticut or New Hampshire around May 9–10, 1980, or remembers seeing his vehicle, please come forward.