Terrance Lee Schram was 25 and serving in the U.S. Navy when he vanished in late spring 1981. He had been on leave from the carrier U.S.S. Saratoga, based in Philadelphia, and was last seen on or about June 1, 1981, in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. He was reportedly planning to travel to Montreal to see his girlfriend but never arrived.

Months of silence followed. The final contact with his family came in late 1981 during a phone call in which he said he was in Florida and that he was considering turning himself in to the Navy; by then he had been declared a deserter after more than 30 days absent without leave. The specific Florida location was never given, which has complicated efforts to trace him.

In July 2008 his family asked the Sturgeon Bay Police Department for help; the department entered him into national databases as an endangered missing adult and took on the case despite the disappearance not occurring within its jurisdiction. The investigation has been hindered by the passage of time and the lack of a clear starting point in Florida. Does anyone have information about Terrance’s movements in mid‑1981 or memories of him in Sturgeon Bay or Florida?