David Michael Burney, a 46-year-old father of six, was last seen on June 29, 2007, after stopping at a Jet-Pep gas station and convenience store on Highway 157 in Battleground, Alabama. He had recently bought a red 1987 Toyota Tercel and planned to drive to Georgia to visit two daughters. Family reported the disappearance as out of character and said he would not have voluntarily abandoned them; they also expressed concern that he had enemies who might have wished him harm.

In late August 2007 the red Tercel was found abandoned in Bankhead Forest off a county road in Winston County. Locals said the vehicle had been there since about July 7. The car was out of gas and its battery was missing, but investigators reported no signs of a struggle and no evidence explaining Burney’s whereabouts. The Cullman County Sheriff’s Office is the investigating agency and Burney is listed as an endangered missing person.

Does anyone who lived or traveled near Highway 157 in late June or the County Road into Bankhead Forest in July remember seeing a red 1987 Toyota Tercel or anything unusual that summer?