CENTREVILLE, Md. — It was strange; not just for a quiet Eastern Shore county, but bizarre anywhere.

A self-employed stonemason disappeared from Queen Anne's County in 2013, and has never been seen or heard from again, leaving investigators with a puzzling missing persons case.

James Colicchio was living out of a commercial rental unit on 4-H Park Road near Queenstown before he vanished. He may have been gone for two months before anyone reported him missing to the Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office.

Sheriff Gary Hofmann leads the county's law enforcement agency, and led it 12 years ago when the search first started. Colicchio's disappearance remains one of just three unsolved cases in the entire county.

No family, no contacts found

With a lack of much evidence, investigators have st

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