Bryan Cole Thorne was 17 and a student at Brea Canyon High School when he was last seen in Brea, California, on January 13, 1998. Friends originally said they dropped him near his home after a school field trip but he never arrived; his mother reported him missing the next day. He was described as a 5 feet 5 inches white male, 145 pounds, with brown hair, and an avid golfer. He was last seen wearing a blue jacket and blue pants.

Years of investigation produced few leads until 2004, when five witnesses recanted earlier statements and implicated Robert Anthony Marquez. They said Marquez lured Thorne to his Rowland Heights home after the field trip, stabbed him with a military-style knife, dismembered the body, bagged the remains, and disposed of them in a supermarket dumpster. The witnesses said Marquez threatened them into silence; police reported Marquez claimed to be a Satanist and suggested a ritual motive. Thorne’s body has never been recovered.

Does anyone have information about Bryan’s last known movements or about the dumpster behind the supermarket mentioned in the witness accounts?