Missing cat

Hello Reno, my family and I have lived here for over 18 years and for the last 12 years we have had our cat Prince who is an outdoor cat. He was found outdoors and refused to stay inside during the day but he would come back every night like clock work at 10 for bed and obviously he would come back in over 10 times a day for some treats but then he would just sit outside in-front of our apartment watching the world go by. This has been his routine for 12 years now and 3 days ago he didn’t come home. We have signs up and have talked to a lot of neighbors we had one neighbor tell us a lady in a grey Subaru had picked him up when we went to said lady’s house she was very strange and when we asked if she did pick him up she responded “ I wish...... I would have” and to me that sounded a little strange the long pause in the middle made it even more weird but we just know he has to be around here somewhere because he has never been harmed or been close to danger while outside he loves people and will come up to you if you want to pet him. We really miss him so so much please if anyone sees him or if you know if someone has him please let us know we have him posted everywhere except Reddit until now he has a collar that has his name and our number on it but people can be really horrible and don’t care if he has a collar