Samuel Kairy was 27 and working as first mate aboard the fishing boat Joe Cool when he disappeared from Miami on September 23, 2007. He left port with three other crew members—Captain Jake Branam, Jake’s wife Kelley Branam, and Jake’s half-brother Scott Gamble—on a trip that was expected to return the next day to Miami.

The vessel had been chartered by Kirby Logan Archer and Guillermo Alfonso Zarabozo. The Coast Guard later located the 47-foot Joe Cool adrift and deserted about 50 miles off Cuba, roughly 160 miles off course. The boat was in disarray, the life raft missing, and investigators reported bloodstains, a handcuff key, and four 9mm shell casings aboard. Archer and Zarabozo were found in the missing life raft several days later and were arrested after giving inconsistent accounts. Investigators concluded the four crew members were murdered and their bodies thrown overboard; no remains were recovered.

Does anyone who knew Samuel or the Joe Cool crew have information about their activities before the trip or remembers seeing the boat as it left Miami?