Shannon Clair LaBau was 23 when he disappeared from Helena, Montana, on February 23, 1999. That morning he told his mother he and a friend were driving to Townsend to look at a muscle car; security footage shows him at a Helena bank about 9:00 a.m. withdrawing several thousand dollars. He never returned to his home that day and was not heard from again.

Shannon was 6 feet 3 inches and about 240 pounds, with blond hair, blue eyes, contact lenses, an unfinished black dragon tattoo on his upper right arm, a faint vertical scar between his eyes and a mole on his neck. He was believed to be wearing a light-colored t-shirt, a dark blue and white plaid flannel shirt and blue jeans. His red 1976 Chevrolet truck also disappeared and has not been recovered.

Investigators treated the case as a homicide after evidence indicated he did not leave voluntarily. The friend last seen with Shannon gave conflicting accounts, saying in one version he dropped Shannon off near his downtown apartment and in another that Shannon got a ride to Butte because he feared someone he owed money to; authorities could not identify the seller of the car.

Did anyone in Townsend, Butte or Helena in February 1999 see Shannon, his red 1976 Chevrolet truck, or the car he was reportedly going to buy?