Stephen B. Kennedy, 19, disappeared from a Makapuu Beach Park campsite in Waimanalo, Hawaii, during a late summer 1972 camping trip with friends. On one morning during the trip he was found to be missing; he left all of his personal belongings at the campsite, with no note and no sign of struggle. Friends conducted searches and police from the Honolulu Police Department investigated, but searches of the immediate area and beach proved fruitless amid rugged terrain and strong ocean currents.

Official records are ambiguous about the exact date of the disappearance, and the case went cold as investigators had very little physical evidence and forensic tools were limited at the time. For his family and friends the outcome remains unresolved, with decades of unanswered questions about what happened to Stephen.

If anyone was at Makapuu Beach Park in late summer 1972 or has information about that camping trip, please share what is known.