After a week-long vacation, Lars Mittank should have boarded a flight home to Germany.

Instead, he ran.

What followed was a decade-long mystery filled with paranoia, unanswered questions, and four competing theories, none of which fully explain what happened.

This is the missing persons case of Lars Mittank.

Sources

Wikipedia — Disappearance of Lars Mittank
Crime & Investigation — The Disappearance of Lars Mittank: Overview & Analysis
People — All About Lars Mittank’s Mysterious Disappearance
All That’s Interesting — The Disappearance of Lars Mittank And The Haunting Case
Mirror — Chilling Mystery of the ‘Most Famous Missing Person’
AOL — Lars Mittank Was Last Seen Sprinting Toward a ForestDark Tales — The Disappearance of Lars Mittank
True Crime Society — Lars Mittank Case Overview
Reddit — Lars Mittank Disappearance Discussion (compiled timeline)