Jerry Von Jones disappeared from South Carolina at age 26. He was last seen on September 1, 1989, and was believed to possibly have been traveling toward California. He is described as a white male, brown hair, brown eyes, about 5 feet 10 inches and 145 pounds, wore eyeglasses, and had scars on his chin and on his left eye. He had been diagnosed with a behavior disorder.

His disappearance was investigated and entered into national missing-person databases. The rest of what happened after his last confirmed sighting remains unclear.

Did anyone in the South Carolina or California travel community from 1989 remember seeing Jerry or a man matching his description along cross-country routes?