For over 20 years, the Smolinsky family has been searching for their son and brother, Billy, who one afternoon in August of 2004 asked his neighbor to watch his dog and then was never seen again.

The case is not without Leeds or suspects, but the biggest question of all has yet to be

answered. Where is Billy? I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of

William Billy Smolinsky Jr. on Dark Down East. It was around 5 p.m. on the evening of August 24th 2004 when 31 year old Billy Smolensky Jr. left his

neighbor's house on Holly Street in Waterbury, Connecticut.

Bryn Mandel reports for the Republican American that Billy had stopped by to ask his neighbor

a favor.

He was heading up north for three days to go see about a car he was interested in buying and wanted to know if the neighbor could look after his dog while he was away.

Billy's dog, a German Shepherd, named Harley, was like a child to him.

According to reporting by John Murray, who has covered this case extensively for the Waterbury

Observer over the last 20 years.

Billy got the dog with an ex-girlfriend, Mary.

They'd dated for eight years, and even though the two had broken up, they stayed close friends, and she and Billy both continued to care for Harley together.

In fact, she had watched Harley while Billy was on vacation in Florida just the week before,

but this time Billy's neighbor agreed to take care of the dog.

On the morning of August 25th, it was Mary, who was first alerted that something weird was going on when she got a concerning call from Billy's neighbor.

He explained that Billy asked him to take care of Harley,

but he couldn't find a key and Billy was apparently gone already and the dog was still inside Billy's house.

This immediately struck Mary as odd.

He definitely would not have left Harley behind unattended or taken off somewhere without letting his family know where he was going.

So Mary called Billy's sister Paula to see if she knew where Billy had gone. But this was the first Paula had heard that

Billy was going anywhere. She too got the sense that something was off. Paula called her parents

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