Benjamin Joseph Bearrick, 55, was last seen January 25, 2009, in Bovina, Mississippi. Two days before his disappearance he found his tenant, Shawn Paul Sponholz, stabbed multiple times in the neck and took him to the hospital; Sponholz died and his death was ruled a homicide. Bearrick was treated as a material witness and questioned by police, then released the same night. When officers returned to speak with him on January 26, Bearrick had disappeared.

At the time he went missing Bearrick was a Vietnam War veteran, unemployed, living on Warriors Trail in Vicksburg with his dog. He had two children and some estranged family in Texas. Authorities have searched the area extensively and investigators say they believe there may be a connection between Bearrick’s disappearance and Sponholz’s murder; his family insists he would not have left voluntarily and suspects foul play.

No trace of Bearrick has been found and both his disappearance and Sponholz’s murder remain unsolved. Did anyone in the Bovina or Vicksburg area in January 2009 see Benjamin Bearrick or notice anything unusual around Warriors Trail?