Ali Lazem Kenani, 58 and living in Nebraska, was driving to visit his ex-wife and child when he vanished during a spring 2019 cross-country trip. He was last seen on May 11, 2019, at a convenience store near Aspen. Two days later his vehicle was found abandoned in a driveway off Capitol Creek Road near the Capitol Peak Trailhead, close to Snowmass Village; the van was described as pretty beat up with heavy hail damage.

The location is notable because mid-May conditions left Capitol Creek Road partially blocked by snow, and the driveway where the vehicle sat was the last accessible turnoff before the road became impassable. The trailhead for Capitol Lake was still buried under snow a mile further, and Kenani was not an experienced outdoorsman and had no known plan to be in that remote valley. Two days before his last sighting he had told a police officer he was lost.

After Kenani was reported missing on June 6th, search teams covered about 900 acres of public and private land. Twenty-five searchers from multiple agencies used dogs and a drone heat-seeking team, but the extensive search produced no clues to his whereabouts. The investigation remains open with the Lincoln, Nebraska Police Department.

Does anyone who knew Ali or who was in the Snowmass Village area in mid-May 2019 have information that could help explain why his van ended up on that remote driveway?