Billie Jo Hughes, known as BJ, was 20 and living with her blind, disabled mother in Williamston, South Carolina, when she disappeared on July 6, 2000. That morning she visited friends in Williamston, accepted a ride from the Williamston Curb Market and was dropped off at the intersection of Highway 8 and Highway 20 in Pelzer. The last confirmed sighting is of her walking toward a payphone at that intersection. She took none of her personal belongings and never arrived on a beach trip she had planned with a friend’s family.

Described as a Caucasian female, 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches and 190 to 200 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, Billie Jo’s disappearance was reported after about a week and a half when her mother learned she had not left for the trip. The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office considers the case suspicious and continues to seek information about her movements that day.

If anyone knew Billie Jo, saw her near Highway 8 and Highway 20 in Pelzer on July 6, 2000, or has other information, please come forward.