Shaun Thornhill, 41, left Rayville, Louisiana for St. Francisville in January 2012 seeking work on a tugboat or barge. He checked into the Magnuson Hotel on January 20 and was last confirmed seen in St. Francisville on January 23, 2012. Records show he paid for the night of January 23 as well, though it is unclear whether he stayed that night.

A brief arrest for public intoxication on January 20 resulted in release the same day. Two days after his last sighting, on January 25, 2012, his white GMC extended cab pickup was found locked on the side of Kingston Highway, south of Natchez in Adams County, Mississippi. Nearly all personal items remained in the truck — wallet, cell phone, clothing and a television — while his driver’s license and debit card were missing.

Search teams from Adams County covered more than 600 acres, including aerial searches, and checked creeks that were running high at the time, but no sign of Shaun turned up. He is described as white, 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches, 175–185 pounds, brown hair, blue almond-shaped eyes, a scar in his left eyebrow, a sun tattoo with 798 on his upper right arm and mainliner tattooed on his back. Anyone with information about Shaun’s movements in late January 2012 or who saw his truck along Kingston Highway is asked to come forward?