Missing Pearl Street Couple Remembered at Vigil “Micheal + Camden, We Remember,” read the sign held by Chuck DeLaney as he stood next to the doorway of his building, 76 Pearl Street. Another sign, taped to the front door, read, “We Won’t Forget.” Camden Sylvia and Micheal Sullivan lived in a fifth-floor loft of that building, at 76 Pearl Street, before they vanished on Nov. 7, 1997. On the fifth anniversary of the couple’s yet-unexplained disappearance, about a dozen of their friends and relatives, along wih several detectives who have worked the case, gathered in front of the building for a candlelight vigil.   “Thanks for coming,” said Laurie Sylvia, who had come from Cape Cod for the commemoration. Then her lips began to tremble and her eyes welled up with tears. Andrew McCarthy, Camden Sylvia’s friend since college, stepped forward to read a poem. “All of the tears in the world will not bring you back,” he read. “But we still cry for you. We still love you.” Jerry Goldfeder, the attorney for the Sylvia family, praised the Police Department for “working tirelessly” to solve the case and said he had not given up on finding answers to the mystery of the couple’s disappearance. “Everywhere I go in the city, people ask me, ‘What ever happened to the missing couple?’” he said. “We’re still hoping to get some closure here. There’s a part of us that still believes the police will solve this crime.” He called Sylvia and Sullivan, and other missing persons, “ordinary people snatched out of their ordinary routines.” Delaney, a downstairs neighbor of the couple, said he often thinks he sees Sylvia or Sullivan on the street. “It could be the shape of the head, a particular pair of glasses, and I’ll think it’s one of them. And then of course I realize that it’s not,” he said. “At this point, I feel a sense of determination to find out what happened to them. You can’t replace old friends, all you can do is keep looking for them. Somebody out there knows something.” The DeLaneys have held vigils at the building on each anniversary of the couple’s disappearance, except for last year because of the terrorist attack. The couple vanished with everything in order in their apartment and no sign that they had planned to leave. The Manhattan South homicide squad and the Manhattan district attorney’s office continue to investigate the disappearances. The couple’s landlord, Bob Rogriguez, who ran a locksmith shop on the ground floor of the building and had been in a rent dispute with Sylvia and Sullivan at the time of their disappearance, has been suspected of being involved, but the police have not come up with any physical evidence. His lawyer, Micheal Rosen, has said that Rogriguez had no connection to the case. Rodriquez is currently in prison on tax and credit-card fraud charges, serving a term that ends in 2004. Detective Reggie Britt, who has worked on the case since the beginning, said he came to the vigil to reassure Laurie Sylvia that that the police had not stopped trying to uncover the truth about her daughter’s fate. “You can’t help but be emotionally involved,” said Britt, , a 28-year veteran of the police force. “This is the most important missing persons case I’ve worked on in my career—because we haven’t solved it yet, because there’s no closure.” Michele Whitney, Camden Sylvia’s aunt, said the lack of closure was especially hard. “When they first disappeared, I got so upset at a friend who told me that we may never know what happened to them,” she said. “I thought, ‘How could you say that?’ And here we are five years later, and we really don’t know.”