Daniel Sites, 26, disappeared from Citrus County, Florida, on July 24, 1996. The last known contact was a phone call with his adoptive mother, described as a normal conversation in which he said he loved her before excusing himself to take another call. He never returned and was not heard from again; his vehicle, clothing, and cash were left at his residence.

At the time he vanished, Sites was a confidential police informant and also selling cocaine, marijuana, LSD, and Ecstasy. He owed other dealers several hundred dollars, and his disappearance came months before he was due to testify in a murder-for-hire trial — a fact investigators consider central to the case. Authorities suspect foul play and have classified him as an endangered missing person.

In December 1997 Kenneth Dwayne Ezell was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with Sites’s presumed death. Prosecutors alleged Jeffrey Sean Hamilton, to whom Sites owed $800, paid Ezell to kill him. An acquaintance said Ezell confessed to beating, shooting, and burying Sites near the Crystal River; Tina Marie Hamilton testified Ezell told her he killed Sites. At trial Ezell was acquitted of murder but convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, receiving over nine years and later paroled in 2005. Jeffrey Sean Hamilton was never charged. Sites’s remains have never been found.

Did anyone who knew Daniel or was in Citrus County around July 24, 1996, see or hear anything that could help locate his remains?