Garland Teel Ford, 76, moved from Arkansas to Wilmer, Alabama in March 2012 and lived with a married couple near the state line. In September 2012 he spoke by phone with his daughter and said he wanted to return to Arkansas; that call was the last confirmed contact with his family. The couple later told authorities Ford left their home on foot to make the long trip back to Arkansas, a claim family and investigators questioned because of his health.

Investigators searched the couple’s property on Morgan Lane North but found no trace of Ford. Authorities determined the couple had been using his Social Security benefits after he was last seen. In 2014 the same couple were arrested, convicted and given long federal prison terms for an unrelated kidnapping in Arkansas; no charges have been filed in connection with Garland Ford’s disappearance. The location of Garland T. Ford and what happened to him remain unknown.

Did anyone in the Wilmer area know Ford or see him after that September phone call?