Jonathan Aaron Hawkins, 29, vanished from Riverview, Florida, on September 25, 2007. His day began when his work van broke down; his mother picked him and a friend, Jason Smith, up from a parking lot near State Road 60 and Interstate 75 at 7:39 p.m. He collected three bags of work equipment and clothing from the van, went to his mother’s house, then borrowed his grandmother’s orange 2002 Chevrolet Camaro to buy parts for the van and promised to return it the next day. That was the last time his family saw him.

Smith told investigators Hawkins planned to meet a preppy man in Town N Country to buy cocaine for resale and that Smith did not see Hawkins after that meeting. The Camaro was found abandoned in a Lowe’s parking lot on Gibsonton Drive on October 31 and returned to the family. Neighbors reported seeing Smith move items from Hawkins’s RV into a truck weeks after the disappearance; Smith was later jailed on unrelated drug charges. Hawkins left behind a cherished black 1987 Nissan 300ZX and had been described as a quiet, reformed business owner living at Rice Creek RV Resort.

Did anyone in Town N Country or along the planned route that evening see Jonathan or the orange Camaro after September 25, 2007?