Successful Student Vanishes Without A Trace

Nineteen-year-old Jesse Ross was only a sophomore at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, but he lived a fast-paced life unusual for most students his age. Although Jesse was busy with his school work, he earned the acclaim of much of his Kansas City community through his internship at a local radio station. He may have only been an intern, but Jesse's personality and charisma channeled its way through the radio waves as he became a popular personality on the "Shorty and the Boyz" morning show.

Jesse had fame and it was likely he'd soon have fortune, too.

Then, the popular and successful student traveled with a group of his peers to Chicago in late November to participate in a model United Nations program. That's when things took an abrupt and unexpected turn for the worse.

Where is Jesse?

Jesse was last seen on November 21, 2006, leaving his downtown Chicago hotel early that morning. Since then, cops have combed the Windy City, looking for clues in Jesse's disappearance, but they've uncovered nothing.

Police in Jesse's hometown say he was a good kid, with no record of trouble of any kind. While there is now a void in Jesse's family, much of Kansas City feels the void, too -- his morning show colleagues and university friends are truly concerned, and want to know what's become of an engaging young man with a bright future ahead of him.