Seventeen-year-old Derrick Scott Wright disappeared from the Gainesville, Georgia area in the summer of 1996, last seen around June 15. At the time he was in a fragile period: recently out of a rehabilitation center, asked to leave a halfway house after a relapse, and reported to have been homeless for a time, staying in a dilapidated trailer in Hall County. He lacked a car and rode a bicycle; he had been working a temporary job at a local McDonald’s that June.

Family contact was regular at about a couple of calls per month, and it was the sudden stop in those calls that alerted them. Around the same time Derrick failed to appear for a court date after receiving a traffic ticket as a passenger in a stopped vehicle. A family search in Hall County turned up no clues. He is described as a Caucasian male, brown hair and eyes, 5 feet 6 inches, about 150 pounds, wears contacts or glasses and has an appendectomy scar on his abdomen. The Hall County Sheriff’s Office lists the case as open.

Did anyone know where Derrick stayed in June 1996 or remember seeing him in Gainesville or Hall County around that time?