More than 60 years ago, Olavi Hendrickson, a former Miami city attorney and a World War II veteran, vanished.

His family assumed that he’d left because of another woman, according to Dana Dean, Hendrickson’s granddaughter. She never met him. Her family didn’t really want to talk about him.

“My family believed he was alive somewhere living another life,” Dean says.

But for the past five years, Dean, a former television reporter, has been investigating her grandfather’s disappearance, looking for answers as to whether he died at the time that he disappeared or went into hiding, or whether something else happened to him.

Through her research, Dean has found enough clues to make her wonder whether his disappearance is related to something bigger, such as political corruption or organized crime.

Dean and her sister started a podcast describing her search. Called Miami Mystery: The Disappearance of Olavi Hendrickson, it debuted Oct. 12. Episodes will run weekly and are available on Apple, Spotify and Amazon Music.

Dean, 42, says she hopes that the podcast helps her find her grandfather’s remains. She wants him to have a “proper burial” and the family to have some closure.

“I’m looking for attorneys from that era who might have known him,” she says, adding that they could have some insight or recollection that may provide a clue about what happened to him.

Dean, who now owns a public relations agency, was first inspired to know more about her grandfather after she learned about how legal heirs may be able to claim abandoned property. When she searched her grandfather’s name, she learned that the family could receive $1,400. She took that as a first clue about her grandfather’s past and dove into microfiche records to search for him.

The records, Dean says, show that Hendrickson earned his law degree in 1940, then served as an intelligence officer in the military. Afterward, he worked as an assistant city attorney for Miami before being promoted to the city attorney.

Hendrickson’s life, she says, appears to take a turn after a 1961 visit to a controversial nightclub. He was forced to resign from his position after the visit but then appears to have been given another job with the mayor at that time, Dean says.

Hendrickson disappeared in 1962, and reporting suggests that he’d been receiving threats and had once been physically attacked, Dean says. His body was never found, although the Social Security Administration records in 1992 said he had died in Missouri in 1979. Dean has been unable to obtain a death certificate.

Dean says she’s not sure exactly how or when the podcast will end, although at this point, she’s planned for a total of seven episodes.

She’s hoping to get additional insight from Freedom of Information Act requests that she sent to the Social Security Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

She’ll add more episodes if she gets new information.

“It’s already been 64 years without knowing what happened to my grandfather,” Dean says. “That’s too long.”