Jesse Wayne Yancey, a 27-year-old Native American father, was last seen at a family member’s home in Tahlequah, Oklahoma on May 28, 1994. He is described as 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall, 195 to 205 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, missing front teeth, a crushed-bone injury around his right eye, a scar on his right hand between the middle and ring fingers, and a tattoo on his right arm of a half-moon smoking a marijuana cigarette.

When Jesse vanished, an outstanding arrest warrant complicated the initial response: family efforts to report him missing were dismissed and a formal missing person report was not filed until May 29, 1997. Investigators have said they suspect he may have been murdered and that a body could be near the Highway 10 area outside Tahlequah, though searches of the Illinois River were considered unlikely to help. DNA from his daughter and sister has been submitted and is on file.

Very few details about Jesse’s last day have surfaced and the case remains unsolved. If anyone knew Jesse, saw him in late May 1994, or has information about the Highway 10 area, please come forward.