HILO, Hawaii (AP) — The wife of a Hawaii man who vanished more than five years ago has filed a civil court petition requesting that her husband be declared dead.

An attorney filed the petition in Hilo Circuit Court on March 13 on behalf of Marylou Meek, the wife of Jeffrey Meek, The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Sunday.

The affidavit filed by Honolulu attorney Robert Holland said there have been “diligent searches and inquiry” into the man’s disappearance and that no “satisfactory explanation for his absence, and Jeffrey Everett Meek is presumed dead.”

The 44-year-old plumber from Keaau on the Big Island went missing on Nov. 8, 2014.

Jeffrey Meek phoned an employee to help get his stuck pickup truck out of mud at a property where his family planned to build a pair of houses, police said.

He was not heard from again despite a search. Two days later, one of his boots was found. The other boot was discovered the next day more than a mile from the property.

Police classified it as a missing person case and said there was no evidence of foul play.