Carla Vicentini was a 22-year-old engineering student from Brazil who arrived in the United States in January 2006 as part of a cultural exchange program. She and another exchange student had moved to an apartment on Ferry Street in Newark, New Jersey, and she had recently started a job at the Mediterranean Manor. In the early morning hours of February 10, 2006, she was at the Adega Bar and Grill on Ferry Street visiting a friend and was seen talking and drinking with an unidentified man. Carla told the friend she would go to the man’s car to see a photograph and then return to her nearby apartment, but she was never seen or heard from again.

Her jacket, wallet, and passport were later found in her apartment, a detail some considered odd given the cold and snowy night. The unidentified man has been described as a white male in his thirties with short salt-and-pepper hair and blue or light-colored eyes; his first name may have been Antonio and he has been treated as a person of interest. Some security accounts said Carla waved goodbye and walked toward her apartment alone.

Did anyone who lived or worked on Ferry Street in February 2006 see Carla that night or recognize the man described as Antonio?