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MISSING: TIM MOLNAR

SYNOPSIS: On January 24, 1984, 19-year-old Tim Molnar of Daytona Beach, Florida, a student in aeronautical mechanics, simply drove away from home and out of his family's life. His 14-year-old brother, Frank, had been the last person to see him.

Two weeks passed with no word from Tim. Then the Molnars received their first clue from a gas station in Lake City, Florida, 150 miles north of Daytona Beach. On the day he disappeared, Tim had stopped there and paid for a tank of gas with his parents' credit card. The attendant recalled that Tim had been traveling alone. Then the Molnars received a letter from an auto impound company in Georgia. Apparently, six days after Tim vanished, his car had been abandoned in a parking lot, one block from Atlanta's Greyhound Bus terminal. A new stereo, Tim's expensive tool set, and a 10-speed bike he had packed in the trunk were all missing.

Had Tim Molnar sold his possessions to buy a one-way bus ticket to a new life? Or had he been the victim of foul play? Tim Molnar had left behind a tangle of conflicting clues. He hadn't taken any clothes with him, other than what he was wearing. However, just before leaving, Tim had withdrawn nearly all the money from his savings account, leaving a balance of $10 as though he might someday return.

If and when Tim Molnar returns home, there will be much to talk about. His little brother has grown up to be a financial consultant and his sister is a doctor. Both are married and Tim is now an uncle. Additionally, just days after Tim drove off, a relative passed away, leaving him an estate that has grown to more than fifty thousand dollars. UPDATE: On November 8, 1996, Tim Molnar's parents received confirmation that the remains of a body found in the woods in Neosho, Wisconsin were those of their son. On the night the segment reran on January 31, 1996, a man named Steven Cull called the Unsolved Mysteries phone center after recognizing the description of the clothes Tim was wearing when he disappeared as those on a body he had found in the woods some ten years earlier. (Tim Molnar disappeared from Daytona Beach in 1984.)

Steven Cull contacted the medical examiner in Waukesha County, Wisconsin and they contacted Tim's family. DNA tests ultimately confirmed that the body was that of Tim Molnar. No one knows how he got to Wisconsin or how he died. The Molnar family held a memorial service for Tim and had him buried in Daytona Beach, Florida.


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19-year-old Tim Molnar disappeared from Daytona Beach, Florida in 1984. His body was later found in some woods in Neosho, Wisconsin.

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