Harry Miller Maupin was 40 when he was last seen near his workplace in the Lejunior community of Harlan County, Kentucky, on June 18, 1985. A Richmond businessman and co-owner of Gano Coal Company and Aqua Processing Inc., he often stayed on mining property in Shields. At disappearance he was described as 6 feet 2 inches, about 235 pounds, with brown hair and gray eyes, a scar on his right thigh, and a reattached tip of his right little finger. He wore a plaid Western-style shirt, Levi’s jeans, new muleskin cowboy boots, a brown leather belt with a brass plate engraved H.M. Maupin, and a Seiko watch with a blue dial and cracked crystal.

Investigators treating the case as foul play received information that Maupin had been shot on Gano Coal Company property and that his body was removed from Harlan County. Harlan County search teams extended efforts into parts of Tennessee and Virginia but never recovered remains. Several years after his disappearance he was declared legally dead and he left two young children.

In October 2010 Ernest Lee Hensley was charged with murder and tampering with evidence in connection with the case; those charges were dismissed in March 2013 without prejudice because key witnesses were unavailable. The disappearance remains unsolved. If anyone knew Harry, his movements in June 1985, or has information about the Gano Coal property, please share what is known.