Paolo Renda, 70, vanished from Saint-Leonard, Quebec, on May 20, 2010, after a morning of golfing and a visit to his family’s funeral home. He called his wife saying he would pick up steaks for dinner but never returned. Later that afternoon his car was found on a Montreal street unlocked with the windows down and the keys in the ignition; Paolo himself was gone.

Reports say the disappearance was believed to be a violent abduction: while driving he was allegedly stopped by a vehicle resembling an unmarked police car with flashing lights, and two men forced him at gunpoint into their car. No ransom demands were made, his body has never been recovered, and years passed without contact from him or those responsible. A 2013 court request to declare him legally dead was denied, and a judge declared him deceased in September 2018.

Renda was a longtime associate of the Rizzuto crime family, described as a consigliere and brother-in-law to its reputed leader; observers have linked his disappearance to ongoing underworld power struggles and have called it a likely lupara bianca. Does anyone have verifiable information about Paolo’s route that afternoon or the vehicle seen that day?