Homelessness, substance use disorder, and mental health challenges create significant barriers in missing persons cases,

often causing individuals to fall through the cracks and their families fighting to get their names and stories heard.

Ryan Blagojevich disappeared without a trace in 2013, and his sister Eve continues the

search to find him. The circumstances of his life at the time he went missing has made it even

more difficult to get answers, but Eve won't let her brother be forgotten. I'm Kylie Lowe, and this is the case of Ryan Blagojevich

on Darkdown East. It was just after 7 o'clock on Sunday night, March 31st, 2013, when a call came in to Portland, Maine Police Dispatch.

It was a staff member at Milestone Recovery, and they were calling to report that a man was being rude to guests and staff and refusing to leave.

Milestone Recovery provides care and services to individuals experiencing substance use

disorders, mental illness, and homelessness.

The man reportedly refusing to leave and disturbing people on site was 37-year-old

Ryan Blagojevich, a guest at Milestone Recovery himself.

Portland police officer Brent Abbott responded to 65 India Street on the Portland Peninsula by 7.06 p.m.

The call detail report from that night is just a few lines.

It states that the shelter staff wanted Ryan to leave for the night,

but he could return the next day. So Ryan was removed from the shelter and asked to move along for the

evening. Officer Abbott finished the call by 7.18 p.m. Where Ryan went next, who he saw or what he did, there's no record of it. He didn't

return to the shelter the next day. And since that Sunday evening in 2013, no one has seen or heard

from him. Ryan's sister, Eve Blagojevich, is 14 years younger than Ryan.

They came from a family of five kids all pretty far apart in age,

but the whole family was and is still close-knit.

My parents ran an upholstery business out of our family home,

so they were like always there.

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