Paul James Elliott was 50 when he disappeared from Alliance, Ohio, on August 22, 2007. That morning a brother reported tools stolen from a shared shed; Paul, reportedly uncomfortable around police because of a past event, left on his bicycle before officers arrived and was never heard from again. He was not considered a suspect in the theft. At the time he was described as about 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches, 150 to 165 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, and he lived with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Paul left behind his wallet, phone, identification and Social Security card, and family say he was looking forward to his son’s upcoming wedding. In January 2013 Paul’s son found the bicycle hidden in the back room of a locked trailer on a property in Atwater, Ohio, about nine miles from where Paul was last seen; the bike appeared to have been deliberately concealed. That discovery cast doubt on an earlier unsubstantiated rumor that Paul had gone to Alaska to start a new life.

Does anyone have information about Paul’s movements in Alliance or Atwater in August 2007, or about the locked trailer where the bicycle was found?