John Lloyd Buddy Heflin, 24, was last seen November 21, 1968, in Starkville, Mississippi, after leaving his sister’s home. He had a criminal history that included a 1967 burglary arrest and 1968 vagrancy and drug charges. Family say he’d been living apart from his wife and children, who had moved to Chicago, and sometimes disappeared for stretches, but they reported him missing when he did not return after being dropped off at a friend’s house. Rumors circulated that he might have been killed near Vicksburg or Jackson and his body thrown in the Mississippi River; his Volkswagen was never located. Few facts are confirmed and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone who knew Buddy in 1968 or who remembers a missing Volkswagen in the region have information to share?