Aspen Matis
📍 Location
New York City, NY, USA (last confirmed sighting of Aspen and Justin Matis), New York City, NY
Specific Location: New York City, New York, United States (last confirmed sighting of the couple before Justin’s disappearance)
Coordinates: 40.71278, -74.00597
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40.7128°, -74.0060°
📝 Description
Aspen Matis is the author of Girl in the Woods and Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir. The missing person case at issue concerns her husband, Justin Matis, who disappeared on November 3, 2013 after leaving to attend a mutual friend's funeral in New Hampshire. Public reporting indicates the disappearance has remained unsolved, with no verified sightings or location updates since late 2013. Matis later published memoirs that describe the events and their aftermath, shaping how the case is understood by readers and the public.
🔍 Circumstances
Aspen and Justin Matis were married for about three years. On November 3, 2013, Justin woke Aspen with a goodbye kiss before driving away to attend his friend's funeral in New Hampshire and never returned. After 43 days of absence, he sent a brief email asking Aspen to mail some of his belongings to Colorado, after which no further verifiable contact or public sightings have been reported. The case has been described in interviews and memoirs, but no definitive leads have been disclosed publicly.
ℹ️ Additional Details
Justin’s disappearance followed the funeral of a mutual friend in New Hampshire; he and Aspen had relocated to New York prior to the disappearance. The case remains unsolved with no publicly confirmed location or status updates. Aspen Matis has discussed the event in interviews and in her memoirs, which recount her perspective and processing of the loss.
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Case Information
- Case ID
- cmivi7j0z00j38f0kfxqs913l
- Primary Source
- medium.com
- Added to Map
- December 7, 2025
- Last Updated
- December 8, 2025