Masaki Sonomura, 90, was last seen inside his Paukaa, Hawaii home on Kukaki Street at about 11:30 p.m. on January 31, 2000. He was reportedly wearing an oversized green t-shirt and was described by family as in good mental health, though he took daily medication for high blood pressure and high cholesterol and was on a course of antibiotics. Family members had no indication anything was wrong that night.

By 6:40 a.m. the next morning his family reported him missing. Police and fire rescue mounted an extensive air and ground search of the area around his residence and the rugged Paukaa terrain but found no sign of Sonomura or any evidence indicating his whereabouts. He was a prominent Hilo businessman, founder and chairman of M. Sonomura Contracting Company Inc., and his unexplained disappearance left family and the community without answers.

Was anyone in Paukaa that night aware of unusual activity near the 80 block of Kukaki Street or of an elderly man seen after midnight?