Anthony Casale was 25 when he disappeared from Omaha. His last contact with family is generally dated to April 1989. His sisters say they still have no answers about what happened to him.
The Omaha World-Herald reported that Casale stopped calling his mother in April 1989, and that she eventually reported him missing after he lost contact with the family. His sister Kathleen recalled that he visited her with a damaged $20 bill; she tried to exchange it at a bank a week or two later and called her mother to ask Anthony to call.
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System lists April 7, 1989, as Casale’s date of last contact, according to his NamUs case file. A Websleuths thread also identifies the case as an Omaha disappearance dated April 7, 1989.
Family History and the Last Known Contact
Joe was the oldest of five siblings. His father died of stomach cancer when Anthony was about 3, and his parents divorced a few years before his father’s death. The family moved from East Harlem, New York, to Omaha when Anthony was around 11. His younger sister, Toni Casale, recalled that he enjoyed drawing…