Astor Johnson Southerland, 79, walked away from his Kenansville, North Carolina home on October 30, 1990, and never returned. Living with Alzheimer’s disease at the time, he was last seen walking west on Secondary Road 1104 wearing a beige jacket, blue sweatshirt, blue pants and black loafers; he may also have been wearing a grey dress hat or a blue baseball cap.

Southerland was a Black male, about 6 feet 1 inch and 165 pounds, with brown hair, gray eyes and glasses. He had a surgical scar on his stomach and a cut on his middle finger. The Duplin County Sheriff’s Office was notified that day and searches of the area produced no significant leads. He was later legally declared deceased in 2001, but the family’s need for answers reportedly continued and the sheriff’s office lists the investigation as open.

Did anyone in Kenansville or who traveled Secondary Road 1104 in late October 1990 see Mr. Southerland or notice anything unusual that day?