Steven Vincent Mylan, 20, left his family home in Mississauga, Ontario just after midnight on February 13, 1998, driving a black two-door 1991 Chevrolet Beretta. A business student at Humber College’s north campus, he was described as responsible and his sudden, unannounced departure was out of character. He had mentioned wanting to travel to the United States to buy an over-the-counter hair loss remedy.

Customs records show the Beretta crossing the Rainbow Bridge into the United States the day after he left, though it has never been confirmed that Steven was driving. The car was first located abandoned near the Little Colorado Gorge Overlook at the Grand Canyon, with the keys in the ignition; a man later said he had taken the vehicle and driven it for several months. Authorities officially recovered the stripped vehicle on June 8, 1998, parked off State Route 64 in Flagstaff, Arizona. An extensive search of the Little Colorado Gorge area produced no sign of Steven.

At disappearance he was 5 feet 10 inches, about 150 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a black velvet V-neck sweater, a waist-length black nylon jacket with a sheep’s wool collar and lining, a brown corduroy hat, a gold chain with a small watch pendant, and carrying a black canvas backpack. The investigation remains open. Did anyone in the Mississauga or Grand Canyon area see Steven or his Beretta that February?