Jeff Harmon was 23 when he vanished from Aberdeen, Mississippi. He was last seen on June 29, 1985, in Monroe County. The day before he disappeared he had talked with his father about possibly buying a used car; his mother was in the hospital at the time, and he left a recent paycheck at home, a detail that suggested he did not plan to be gone long.

Harmon had been involved in a contentious lawsuit against a former employer after a workplace assault and hazing incident; he originally sought $50,000 and accepted a $3,000 settlement after receiving threats. The last known witness said they dropped Jeff off in Becker, Mississippi, and that a man in a blue pickup pulled up and Jeff got into the truck. He was never seen again.

In 2009 an incarcerated man, James Rodney Mills, confessed to helping dispose of Jeff’s body and pointed to a specific grave at Willis Cemetery; an exhumation found only the original occupant. Mills has not been charged in the disappearance. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office has reopened the investigation at times, and Jeff is still considered missing and presumed a homicide.

If anyone knew Jeff, the places he frequented in 1985, or remembers a blue pickup in Becker that night, please share what you know.