Steven Hector Gravel was 23 when he was last seen by friends at a North Bay residence shortly before midnight on December 23, 2000. He left the gathering in his stepfather’s black 1990 Ford Bronco wearing a dark-colored winter coat, blue jeans, runners, and a baseball cap. Police later spotted a vehicle matching that description being driven by a suspected impaired male who eluded a traffic stop; the Bronco was found abandoned near Lake Nosbonsing Road the morning of December 24 with no obvious signs of injury or foul play and evidence suggesting the driver walked away.

Investigators at the time believed Steven had been driving the Bronco without the owner’s consent and issued a warrant for his arrest, but they were unable to locate him.

Steven is described as a Caucasian male, 5 feet 10 inches, 150 to 170 pounds, with brown hair long in the back and short on top, hazel eyes, and multiple distinctive tattoos including a gargoyle on his back, a baby portrait on his right shoulder, a dagger with Dad on his left shoulder, FTW on his left upper arm, and a wolf head on his right forearm. His disappearance remains an open investigation. Did anyone in the North Bay area have contact with Steven after December 2000 or recall seeing that Bronco around Lake Nosbonsing Road?