John Edward Parks was 25 when he disappeared from the Woodfield Park area of Richland County, South Carolina. He was last seen on March 28, 1982, after receiving a telephone call about a truck he planned to use for an impending move. Family said he left home to handle that errand but never revealed who had called or exactly where he was going.

Parks is described as 6 feet 4 inches, about 190 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. On the last reported sighting he was wearing a denim jacket, a knit shirt, jeans, tan Dingo boots, a watch, and a silver necklace. He was expected to visit a friend but never arrived; his family grew worried after three days without contact.

Investigators have treated the disappearance as suspicious and the Richland County Sheriff’s Office has maintained the case. The key unresolved detail remains the origin and recipient of that March 28 phone call. Does anyone have information about John’s movements in Richland County in late March 1982 or recall who might have called him that day?