Joshua Leon Middleton, 20, was last seen the morning of January 21, 2005, as a passenger in a red Ford truck on Dry Creek Road near Mount Judea, Newton County, Arkansas. He wore a white hooded sweatshirt with Mt. Judea Eagles in blue letters, blue jeans, camouflage boots and carried a brown fold-up wallet. Friends had last seen him playing cards at a trailer in Vendor the night before; he mentioned possibly leaving Arkansas for work in Missouri or Texas.

That same day Charles Daniel House was found shot to death in his vehicle between Mount Judea and Hasty. Investigators linked the two cases and have said Joshua may have been a witness to House’s killing. The man last seen with Joshua, Rickey Allen Freeman, was also last seen with House and was later charged in connection with House’s murder; Freeman was also convicted months later of manslaughter in the shooting death of Joshua’s cousin Shannon Middleton. Searches have been conducted, reported sightings in other states investigated, and properties of relatives searched, but Joshua has never been found and the Newton County Sheriff’s Office keeps the case open.

Does anyone have information about Joshua’s last known movements, the red Ford truck, or sightings around Dry Creek Road on January 21, 2005?