Srinivasu Dasari was 30 and a general practitioner when he disappeared from Overland Park, Kansas, on August 1, 1984. He had come to the United States the year before to study for his physician’s license and was living with his sister and brother-in-law on West 102nd Street while attending classes.

On the afternoon of August 1 Dasari was seen at a copy center on 91st Street and Metcalf preparing school materials. Around 2:00 p.m. witnesses saw him park a red Toyota on a side street and be approached by two men in an older greenish-blue Ford van with large side windows. After a brief conversation he reportedly followed the van to Meadowlark Hill Apartments. There, one of the men used a hydraulic jack to lift Dasari’s car and removed the right rear tire. The two men and Dasari got into the van, taking the tire and leaving his car on the jack; the van drove away and he was never seen again.

Police suspected foul play and the scene suggested a planned and unusual abduction. One unproven theory mentioned in connection with the case involves Jamaat al-Fuqra. No confirmed account exists of what happened after he was driven away. Did anyone in the Overland Park area have contact with Dasari or see that greenish-blue van that afternoon?