Frank Lee Black Jr., 58, disappeared after traveling to Florida on a business trip that began from Newark International Airport on February 24, 1996. Owner of a school bus company in Andover, New Jersey, he had been exploring a deal to sell sixty conversion vans and was due to meet a woman identifying herself as Mia Giordano in West Palm Beach. When he failed to make routine check-in calls and missed a meeting about selling his business, family members reported him missing.

Investigators traced the calls from Mia Giordano to Lisa Costello and developed a theory that the contact was a setup tied to a long-running business rivalry between Black and former friend and competitor Alan Mackerley of Byram Bus Line. Authorities allege Black was taken after arriving in Florida and later murdered, with his body never recovered and believed disposed of in the Atlantic Ocean. Prosecutions followed based on circumstantial evidence, including testimony that Mackerley confessed to a friend.

The loss devastated Black’s family and ended plans for his retirement. Does anyone with knowledge of Black’s business contacts, travel to Florida in February 1996, or the people involved have information to share?