Bennie Crockett was 69 when he vanished from Taylor’s Grove, South Carolina, in the late summer of 1977. He was last seen after 7:00 p.m. on August 12 at Rankin’s Grocery on U.S. 521. Witnesses said he spoke with an unidentified person inside a vehicle that was parked in the highway median; after that conversation he was never seen again.

Described as a Black male, 5 feet 5 inches and about 160 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, Crockett became the subject of a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office investigation that included searches of the surrounding area but turned up no sign of him. His family does not believe he walked away, and seven years after his disappearance he was declared legally dead. No body has been found and no one has been charged.

Did anyone in or near Taylor’s Grove in August 1977 see a vehicle parked in the U.S. 521 median that evening or remember someone talking with Bennie Crockett?