Alberta man reports brother missing 25 years after he disappeared

William Kwiatek isn't a particularly difficult person to spot, with the Star of David tattooed on his left hand and the words "LOVE" and "HATE" on his knuckles, including his partially amputated left ring finger. But his brother says he hasn't seen the Alberta man since July of 1988.

Pete Kwiatek filed a missing persons report for his brother this August, 25 years after the construction worker disappeared while hitchhiking from a job in Canmore back to Calgary, the Calgary Sun reported.

William Kwiatek was 43 when he went missing, and he would be 68 now. Why wait more than two decades to report his disappearance?

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Pete told the Sun he has tried to find his brother over the years, hired a personal investigator and spoken to the RCMP, but his searches have led him nowhere.

He said in 1988, when his family first tried to report that his brother had vanished, the RCMP in Hinton said he needed evidence of foul play to file a report, according to the Sun. An RCMP Spokeperson said foul play isn't a requirement for a missing persons report.

Pete also told the newspaper that police suggested some people disappear on purpose. But it isn't like William to run away, his brother said, and he wants closure on an unsolved mystery that's troubled him for years.

The RCMP is reaching out to the public for any information about William Kwiatek, a five-foot-eleven man who wore glasses and weighed 221 pounds when he went missing.