John E. Warren, 69, left his Toms River, New Jersey, home on a summer morning in 1983 for his usual walk toward Ocean County College and never returned. He told his wife he’d be back in about an hour. He was seen by a security guard on College Drive at 9:15 a.m. and spoke with a jogger on Brokaw Boulevard around 9:50 a.m., but did not come home for a 10:00 a.m. neighbor’s pool party and was reported missing at 11:00 a.m.

An extensive search involved local police, the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department, Army National Guard and State Police helicopters (one with infrared), and tracker dogs. Dogs followed a scent to a pond off Hooper Avenue, along a wooded edge and a roadway, but the trail ended about a mile from the college. His wife found two sets of sneaker prints on his usual path, one toward the college and one returning toward home. No physical trace was ever recovered.

Warren had retired two months earlier after 16 years as an associate professor of engineering at Ocean County College and previously worked as an engineer for Nash Controls designing machinery used in military weaponry.

If anyone knew John Warren’s routines that summer or saw him along College Drive, Brokaw Boulevard or Hooper Avenue that morning, can you share what you remember?