Chris Morales, 23, vanished from outside a Menards in Montgomery, Illinois, on October 16, 2019. He had accompanied his father to the store and remained in the vehicle while his father went inside; about twenty minutes later the father returned and found Chris gone with no sign of him or any contact since.

At Chris’s apartment his father found two Army backpacks on the floor and three handwritten letters whose contents have not been released. Those items suggested a possible planned departure but offered no explanation for where he went. At the time he was last seen he was described as a Hispanic male with black hair, brown eyes, 6 feet 2 inches tall and about 140 pounds, wearing a brown shirt and red pants. The Aurora, Illinois Police Department is handling the investigation.

Two years before he disappeared, in 2017, Morales was arrested in Minneapolis on charges connected to a missing 13-year-old girl he had met online; it is unknown whether that incident is related to his disappearance. Does anyone have information about Chris’s movements on October 16, 2019, or recall seeing him near Ogden Avenue that day?