James Edward Laws, known as Eddie, was 21 and living in a trailer on Sweeten Creek Road in Asheville, North Carolina, when he vanished on November 22, 1980. The last contact with his family was a seemingly normal pay-phone call to his mother from a nearby Hot Spot the day before he went missing. He is described as six feet tall, 150 pounds, with blond hair, blue eyes and an appendectomy scar on his abdomen.

Several weeks after his disappearance Eddie’s car was found abandoned at a hotel in Asheville. The interior was reportedly very clean except the trunk, which showed signs that someone had been sick inside and that there might have been pressure from within the hood; the belt from one of his sweaters was recovered in the vehicle. There has been no confirmed sighting of Eddie since November 22, and the Asheville Police Department lists the investigation as unsolved.

Does anyone who lived in or near Asheville in late 1980 remember seeing Eddie or his car, or have information about that hotel where the vehicle was left?