Michael Paul Bazan was 22 when he vanished from Phoenix in the early morning hours of July 27, 2003. He was last seen around 2:00 a.m. leaving a party near the 19000 block of North 3rd Street. Witnesses reported he was upset and intoxicated when he left, wearing blue jeans and no shirt.

Distinctive tattoos may help with identification: the word HOSTILE on the back of his neck and a depiction of his vertebrae in red and blue ink down his back. He had been recently released from jail and was on probation; he did not have a valid driver’s license or any credit cards, which limited ways to trace his movements. The Phoenix Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit classifies him as endangered missing and has been handling the investigation, including entering family DNA into national databases.

Very few concrete leads were developed after he left the party, and the case remains unsolved. If anyone has information about Michael’s last known movements or saw him in the area that night, please come forward.