Clarence Wayne Holmes, 32, vanished from the Laurel River Lake area near London, Kentucky, in the summer of 2012. On the day he was last seen a storm was approaching; he had been helping other boaters secure their vessels, left a houseboat saying he was heading back to the marina, and never arrived. His boat was later found abandoned on a small sandy island.

Holmes was described as a white male between 5 feet 9 inches and 6 feet tall, weighing 170 to 190 pounds, with brown hair short on the sides and mostly bald on top, blue eyes, a goatee, a bicep band tattoo on his left upper arm and a left-ear piercing. He was last seen wearing white swimming trunks with blue flowers and a Fossil watch on his left wrist.

An initial large search involved local authorities and citizens. In spring 2016 cadaver dogs alerted to an area in the Marsh Branch and a dive team searched near an underwater tree without finding him. A body recovered in spring 2017 from the same area was not Holmes. The US Forest Service keeps the case open.

Anyone who saw Holmes that day or has information about his movements on the lake is asked to come forward.