There’s a rumor DiFrancesco was later seen in a Jamaican jail, but it’s unconfirmed. The plane they used belonged to a man named Howard Crouch, who used a wheelchair. DiFrancesco secretly worked flying cocaine for Crouch. Crouch was later convicted of drug trafficking, but never connected to the disappearance of Johnson and DiFrancesco. Interestingly, the plane took off from the same airstrip where Crouch had arranged a large cocaine drop the year before.

DiFrancesco’s brother suspects they were murdered and buried near Fort Pierce, not that they ever actually left. To this day, the mystery remains unsolved.