HONOLULU -- Honolulu police have renewed a search for a man who has been missing for eight years.

Jeff Zoltowski (pictured, right) disappeared in 1993 after hiking into Wailau Valley on Molokai. He was 23 years old at the time.

Recently, a Honolulu woman who saw Zoltowski's case featured on a nationwide talk show told police that she has seen him several times panhandling in Iwilei. Odetta Stevens said that she is certain Zoltowski is the man who asked her for money near the Kmart on Nimitz Highway.

She said that he identified himself as Sam or Samuel.

"When the drivers pull up to park, he will go up to the driver of the vehicle and ask them for money," Stevens told KITV4 News police reporter Mary Zanakis.

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She also said that he appeared to have a severe head injury.

"You can see the scarring on his forehead ... also his speech is slurred and he limps."

Zoltowski would be 31 today. He has a birthmark about the size of a quarter on his right ankle and he has a scar under his left eye. Steven said that she noticed the scar under the eye.

Because Kmart is across the street from the Insitute for Human Services homeless shelter, Honolulu police Wednesday asked people who are staying there is they seen of recognized Zoltowski.

At least one person said that he may have been seen there, though nobody recognized his picture.

Anyone who believes that they have seen Zoltowski is asked to call 911 or Honolulu police missing persons detective Joe Self at 529-3064.