On April 16, 1973, 17-year-old William Henry Forshee Jr. left Miami for an overnight fishing trip to Marco Island with his father, William Henry Forshee Sr., and two other men identified as Minni or Benny Gaskins and DeWitt Lewis. The four men were aboard an eighteen-foot outboard boat and were never seen or heard from again; foul play is suspected. Authorities later found the men’s truck, a green 1969 Ford F100 with Florida plates, and the boat trailer at Captain’s Landing Marina on Marco Island in the 1000 block of Bald Eagle Drive, but the boat and occupants remain missing.

William Jr. had a burn scar on his right leg and skin graft scars on both thighs. William Sr. was 47, had a mustache, walked with a limp, and was missing his left eye. Vital details and photographs for Gaskins and Lewis are not provided. Around the same time, another boater, Robert Stone of Fort Myers, also disappeared from a 14-foot boat; any connection is unconfirmed.

The Miami-Dade Police Department is the investigating agency. Does anyone have memories, tips, or local information from Marco Island or the Fort Myers area from April 1973 that could shed light on these disappearances?