On the late evening of September 1, 1976, 20-year-old Jimmy Don Robinson stopped at his mother’s home in Elmore City before vanishing. He arrived in a green 1974 Toyota Celica, a loaner from the Del City dealership where he had just started working as a car salesman, with an unidentified man riding in the vehicle. Jimmy went inside to ask his mother to put a load of laundry in the dryer and said he would return in about half an hour; he was never seen or heard from again.

Jimmy was a young father and an Army veteran, recently divorced and looking forward to his first paycheck. He is described as 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 7 inches, about 140 pounds, with thick wavy dark brown to black hair, a mustache, and gray or hazel eyes. He had two tattoos: JD on his outer right forearm and an Indian with a feather and cattails and the word Virgo on his bicep. The Celica was recovered abandoned in Oklahoma City, but Jimmy was not.

Investigators later learned the original Garvin County missing person report could not be located, forcing a re-start of the inquiry decades after the disappearance. The key unresolved detail remains the identity of the unknown passenger in the car that night. Anyone who knew Jimmy, the passenger, or who has information about the Celica that was found is asked to come forward.