LIVONIA, Mich. – He’s been missing for 33 years. Do you keep searching — or do you try to accept that you may never see your loved one again?
That’s the question still hanging over a Michigan family as they mark another year since Jeffrey Zoltowski — an experienced hiker described as a generous, funny “free spirit” — disappeared during a solo trip to Hawaii in 1993.
“My logical brain says there’s no way he’s alive, but there’s always that teeny tiny percentage of hope,” his sister, Stephanie Siordia, told Local 4.
Zoltowski’s disappearance
Zoltowski was 23 years old and living in Livonia when he set out in the spring of ‘93 on a four-month hiking trip — a dream he’d talked about and, according to his family, stayed in close contact about…