“He wouldn’t miss Thanksgiving dinner,” Susan Baldwin told Dateline about her brother, Kevin Hornburg, 57. “If he was invited to one, he would be there. And he would take home half a pie.”

On Wednesday, November 24, 2021, the night before Thanksgiving, Susan says she received a call from her brother Bobby Hornburg, who told her that no one had seen Kevin since Sunday, November 21. “Bobby thought maybe he had come to Jamestown. and I caught it,” he said.

According to Susan, for the previous few months, Bobby had been living at Kevin’s apartment in Jamestown, New York. He also said that Michael Brown, a family friend, had been staying at the apartment for about a month. Susan told Dateline that Brown was the last person to see Kevin around 4 p.m. that day.

“Mike Brown said Kevin just walked off the porch and never came back,” she said, adding that he told her Kevin left the apartment to get replacement lumber he needed to fix someone’s window. “Kevin would probably do that,” Susan said.

Dateline attempted to contact Brown but was unable to do so.

It was snowing when Bobby called Susan that Wednesday night. “’I can’t drive in the dark during a snow storm. It’s snowing, it’s dark, and tomorrow I’m going to go get Kevin,’” he remembers telling his brother. “I didn’t know it would be urgent and I thought Kevin would probably show up again.”

Kevin is one of six siblings and has a daughter of his own. Susan says it was very unlike him to disappear without alerting anyone. “He loves family,” she said. “He loves being with us.”

Susan says she made the 25-minute drive from her home to Jamestown on Thanksgiving morning to help look for Kevin. The family reported him missing that same day.

Kevin’s family continued searching for him on their own over the next few days. According to Susan, she and some other family members searched abandoned buildings in the Jamestown area. “I didn’t know what to do,” Susan said. “I had no idea how to look for it or anything.”

About a week and a half into the search for Kevin, Susan received a call from Merry Williams, founder of an organization called WNY Missing & Unidentified Persons that helps search for missing people in Western New York. “Merry called and said, ‘Do you want help?’ I said, ‘Of course I would,'” Susan told Dateline. “Then he gathered his entire group.”

Merry has continued to lead community-organized searches for Kevin since December 2021. “It is my honor and privilege to help Kevin’s family. “They have become a bit of an extended family,” he wrote to Dateline in an email. “I promised them that until they locate him we will continue with the efforts. And I intend to fulfill that promise in whatever capacity I can.”

According to Susan, the Jamestown Police Department also organized its own searches.

In January 2022, approximately two months after Kevin went missing, the Jamestown Police Department posted about his disappearance on Facebook. “Kevin A. Hornburg was last seen leaving his residence at 629 Prendergast Ave. in Jamestown on Sunday, November 21, 2021 around 4:00 pm,” the post read. “Hornburg has not been seen or accessed any of his finances since that date.”

The department added that the investigation was “ongoing and foul play is believed to have been involved.” Susan told Dateline that the family also strongly believes there was foul play in Kevin’s disappearance.

Dateline has reached out to the Jamestown Police Department several times to speak with an officer familiar with Kevin’s case, but has yet to hear back.

Susan described Kevin as physically vulnerable and said he had been in a coma about three months before his disappearance. “I don’t know what caused the coma,” he told Dateline. “I know that at that time, in August, he was sleeping for 10 days.” She said she tried to care for her brother after he was released from the hospital. “I tried to get him to come back to my house,” she told Dateline. In the end, Kevin decided to return to his own apartment.

Kevin was still weak three months later. “He used a cane because his legs had become very swollen when he was in a coma,” Susan said. “Then they hurt a lot.”

A lot has happened in the family in the three years since Kevin disappeared.

About a year ago, the Hornburg brothers suffered the loss of their brother Danny. This year, Kevin’s daughter got married and he became a grandfather to two children.

Susan says she and the rest of the family have little hope that Kevin is alive, but they haven’t stopped trying to find him. “Closure would be nice,” Susan said. “We would like at least part of his body returned to us so we can, you know, lock him up.”

According to 2022 post on facebook On behalf of the Jamestown Police Department, Crime Stoppers WNY is offering a reward of up to $2,500 “for information leading to the arrest or indictment of the person(s) responsible for the disappearance and/or homicide of Kevin Hornburg ”.

Kevin would be 60 years old today. He is 5’8” and weighs approximately 150 pounds. He has brown eyes and, at the time of his disappearance, brown hair. According to his sister, he has a tattoo of a cross on his left forearm and an unknown tattoo between his left index finger and thumb.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Jamestown Police Department at 716-483-7537. Anonymous tips can also be left on the department’s Anonymous Tip Line at 716 483-TIPS (8477).

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