LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — New details have been released in the search for a man who disappeared in 2023 after visiting a coffee shop in Southern California, including a potential connection with another man who has been missing since 2019.

Emilio Salem Ghanem, 42, of Nashville, was reported missing on May 25, 2023, after he visited a Starbucks on Redlands Boulevard in Redlands. He was driving a rented Nissan Frontier pickup truck that surveillance cameras captured later that day in Grand Terrace. However, that was the last time he was seen alive. Loved ones have not been able to reach him since.

“My biggest fear is that he’s dead, right? I mean, who just disappears out of thin air?” his sister, Jenny, told Nexstar's KTLA in November 2023.

Meanwhile, authorities have been working to find him

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