Travis Wendell Burley was 19 when he left his mother’s home in the 2900 block of Southland Avenue in Baltimore on April 1, 2002. Known to friends as Phat Harold, he departed in a green minivan and never returned, leaving behind an infant son his mother says he would not have willingly abandoned. In the days before he vanished he told his mother he was afraid and mentioned buying a gun for protection; he also had a job interview scheduled the week he disappeared.

Investigators tied his disappearance to his past association with the Lexington Terrace Boys. On the day he was last seen he was with a distant cousin, Michael Lafayette Taylor, and a dispute reportedly arose over a .44 caliber revolver Taylor had allegedly used in at least two murders. Four days later a North Caroline Street row house was set on fire; inside officers found a blood-soaked floor, bloody footprints and blood spatter, evidence that led authorities to conclude Travis had been killed there. Federal indictments later named Taylor and Keon D. Moses in a racketeering case that included Travis’s murder, and a cooperating defendant testified against them. Despite convictions and life sentences, Travis’s body has never been recovered and his case remains classified as an endangered missing person with foul play suspected.

Did anyone who knew Travis or his movements in early April 2002 ever see the green minivan after he left his mother’s home?