James Jimmy Rogers was 14 when he was last seen on October 18, 1981, leaving Hanson, Massachusetts. He told a friend he planned to hitchhike about 10 miles to a house in Halifax but never arrived and there is no evidence he obtained a ride or completed the trip. At the time he vanished he was wearing a brown leather jacket, tan pants, and blue sneakers.

James lived in the Lakeside Road area and worked as a newspaper carrier. Distinctive features included a chickenpox scar under his right eye and a missing pectoral muscle on the right side of his chest. Authorities initially treated the case as a possible runaway; over time foul play became more likely and the disappearance remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Hanson or Halifax in October 1981 recall seeing a boy matching James Rogers’s description or a vehicle that might have picked him up?