Missing Persons

Father shares daily anguish, frustration over son's disappearance

In the fall of 2006, Jesse Opie Ross travelled to Chicago, from his home in Belton, Missouri. He was a 19-year-old college student attending a Model UN conference with classmates from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). On the afternoon of November 21, his parents received a call from one of his sponsors saying Jesse was nowhere to be found. He had literally vanished. The Reporters Inc. offers exclusive excerpts from a new book by Jesse's father, Donald Ross: Where's Opie? Life Goes On.