Jens Paeschke, a 27-year-old student at the University of Dortmund, left home on April 17, 1996, after failing an important exam and reportedly feeling too ashamed to tell his family. He packed a small light green backpack with passport, ID, driver’s license, a Sony Walkman, and some money, then traveled to Amsterdam and boarded a KLM flight to O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Immigration records show he arrived and passed through U.S. immigration on April 18, 1996.

After that point his trail goes cold. He was last seen wearing a dark brown suede leather jacket, a long-sleeved sweater, black Levi’s jeans and black Dr. Martens shoes; he is 6 feet 5 inches with brown hair and brown eyes. U.S. checks turned up no records of a driver’s license, Social Security number or police contacts, and a possible trip to Canada produced no confirmed leads. According to his family’s website, Jens is reportedly no longer considered a missing person, but no public details about his later whereabouts have been provided.

Did anyone in the U.S. or Canada ever see a man matching Jens’s description in April 1996?