Stephen E. Smith, 30, disappeared from his home in Cashmere, Washington. He was last seen on July 12, 1982; his sister reported him missing on July 18. Several days after the report, his 1966 Pontiac Tempest was found abandoned on Dead Man’s Hill Road near Dryden, but there was no sign of Stephen.

On July 31, family members cleaning his home found significant blood on a mattress, a towel and a sofa, an ax handle with blood on it, and a broken tooth later identified as Stephen’s. Those discoveries led investigators to treat the disappearance as suspected foul play rather than a routine missing person case. The investigation went cold for many years.

The case was reopened in late 2016 and led to arrests in March 2017. Charges were filed against Stephen’s ex-wife Dawn Soles and her then-husband Bernard Edmund Swaim alleging a plot to murder Stephen; Soles later pleaded guilty to rendering criminal assistance and agreed to testify. Swaim was acquitted at trial in September 2017, much of the 1982 physical evidence was lost, and Stephen’s body has never been found.

Does anyone who knew Stephen, his routines in Cashmere, or movements around Dryden in July 1982 have information that could still help this case?