John Eric Lake, 37, vanished in Manhattan on December 10, 1967, after spending an evening dining and drinking with a female acquaintance. He dropped her at her apartment, asked to accompany her inside and was turned down; he was last seen walking toward a subway station with the intent of returning to his Greenwich Village apartment and never reappeared. His disappearance was not reported until four days later.

The New York City Police Department and the Pinkerton Detective Agency, hired by Newsweek where Lake was sports editor, conducted investigations. At the time he was reported to be struggling with depression, dissatisfaction at work and financial stress following a recent divorce, though coworkers did not believe he was suicidal. Years later the family was shown a photograph of a deceased person who strongly resembled Lake, but the body could not be positively identified. He was declared legally dead in 1975 and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone who knew Lake in Greenwich Village or the subway area on December 10, 1967, ever come forward with information?