Thurlow Matt Buchanan, 21 at the time, was last seen on November 9, 1987, leaving a friend’s apartment on Pinson Street in Fort Worth, Texas, driving his new pickup truck. His absence was reported when his night school plumbing instructor called after Buchanan failed to attend class; family members said he was reliable, close to his mother, and would not normally leave town without informing her.

Three days later the pickup was found abandoned at a Houston bus station near the University of Houston, where Buchanan’s girlfriend was a student. There were no immediate signs of foul play at the scene. The truck was towed and the family did not learn of its recovery until about a year later when they received notice it would be auctioned.

Buchanan was described as an easy-going, popular young man who graduated from O.D. Wyatt High School in 1984 and was in his final year of night school to become a journeyman plumber. At disappearance he was listed as a 22-year-old African American male, 5 feet 9 inches tall, about 160 pounds, with a scar between his eyes and a scar on his left cheek.

Did anyone in Fort Worth or Houston remember seeing Buchanan or his truck around November 1987, or have information that could help investigators?