Anwar Green

Anwar Green disappeared in Newark, New Jersey on January 19, 2001, after he and his friend Rahim Martin cashed a civil lawsuit settlement check for over $8,000 at a bank in downtown Newark. Surveillance footage showed Green appearing nervous and repeatedly glancing at the door inside the bank. The two men were last seen together at a nearby office building, where Martin briefly called his uncle from a lobby payphone without going up to see him. The day after the pair were reported missing, a man's burned and murdered body was found inside a deliberately set house fire in Newark; that body was identified as Martin in August 2010, nine years later, using DNA technology unavailable at the time of his death. No trace of Green has ever been found, and investigators believe both men were the victims of a robbery connected to the cash they were carrying.

Newark, NJ · Essex County

• 2001: Case opens — victim reported missing or found.
• Documented milestones (renewed investigation, media coverage, family advocacy) to be added as sourced.
• Present: case remains unresolved. No named suspect has been convicted.

• The bank withdrawal, the surveillance footage showing Green appearing nervous, and the men's disappearance, per the Charley Project's case record.
• A man's murdered, burned body was found in a deliberately set house fire in Newark the day after Green and Martin were reported missing; that body was identified as Rahim Martin in August 2010 through DNA analysis.
• Green had no adult criminal history beyond a juvenile probation violation and was not known to abandon contact with his close family, per the same record.
• Investigators theorize both men were targeted and killed for the cash they had just withdrawn, given the timing and the discovery of Martin's body.

• Where Green's remains are, if he is deceased as investigators believe, has never been established.
• Whether the same person or people responsible for Martin's murder and arson are also responsible for Green's disappearance has not been confirmed publicly.
• No suspect has ever been publicly named in either man's case.

• The Charley Project — Anwar Green case record
• NamUs — Missing Person Case #MP788
• Project Cold Case
• Murder Accountability Project
• NamUs