Joshua Scott Adams was 25 when he disappeared from Jefferson, Georgia, after returning home from a six-week drug rehabilitation program in Battle Creek, Michigan. He left his home on May 20, 2013, driving a white 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. Surveillance placed him that day at a Commerce gas station and a bank, where he cashed a $400 check he had taken from his parents.

The Malibu was later found abandoned in a pasture next to a pond on the family’s property on Brockton Loop Road. Inside were his wallet, identification, cell phone, and $25 in cash; his shoes were recovered a few days later on the pond’s bank a couple of hundred yards from the vehicle. Law enforcement searched the area with cadaver dogs and drained the pond but found no trace of Joshua. Cell phone records show several calls that day; one man was called five times and was uncooperative, another admitted a morning call but would not describe the conversation, and the last text pinged near West Broad Street in Athens.

Investigators have treated the case as a homicide and followed numerous tips, including a search of a Hull house that produced unrelated drug arrests. The family has offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction and says the loss has left them devastated. If anyone knew Joshua’s whereabouts on or after May 20, 2013, or has information about the calls from his phone, please come forward.