A silver Dodge Stratus sat damaged at the intersection of Coliseum and State Boulevards in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on the night of November 19, 2004 — but the man who had borrowed it to pick up his fiancée from work was nowhere to be found. That man, Bradley Dale Ross II, has not been seen since, and nearly 22 years later his family is still searching for answers about what happened to him.
Ross was last seen near Old Maumee Road in Fort Wayne before he vanished, according to ClickOnDetroit, which reported that he was 24 years old at the time. A separate account from Project: Cold Case states that Ross was 25 when he disappeared, and the discrepancy in his age has never been resolved. What both sources agree on is the basic outline of that night: Ross had agreed to pick up his fiancée from work in her silver Dodge Stratus, but he never arrived.
The vehicle turned up damaged in a crash at Coliseum and State Boulevards, but there was no sign of Ross at the scene, the station reported. The Charley Project notes that it remains unknown whether Ross was even the one driving the car when it crashed. A description of the same collision on The Vanished podcast adds further detail: around 10 p.m. that night, two men were struck at the intersection by a 2004 Dodge Stratus that ran a red light, and the podcast’s episode description states that the driver fled the scene and was never identified.
A Pregnant Fiancée Left to Walk Home
Ross’s sister, Crystal Ross, told the station that his fiancée walked five to 10 miles home that night after he failed to show up, while seven or eight months pregnant. Crystal Ross also said the fiancée later claimed her roommate had stolen the vehicle rather than that her fiancé had borrowed it, and that this claim appears in the police report — though that detail has not been independently verified…