Gary Locklear was 15 when he vanished from the Charleston Farms community in Charleston, South Carolina, on the evening of September 6, 1974 — the eve of his sixteenth birthday. He was last seen at about 10:00 p.m. walking along Remount Road, barefoot and wearing a cross necklace, returning home from a friend’s house. He left behind all his personal belongings, including his wallet, and had been looking forward to a new motorcycle that was to be his birthday gift.

Thunderstorms moved through the area that night. Early inquiries found few leads; investigators and family did not believe he had run away. Over the decades the case passed through multiple investigators and remains the oldest missing person file held by the North Charleston Police Department, compiled in thick binders of handwritten notes and documents. A witness later placed him on Folly Beach that day and reported overhearing threatening remarks, prompting searches there, including ground-penetrating radar in 1998, but no evidence was found. Two men in their thirties at the time have been named as persons of interest, and speculation has included a possible link to Donald Pee Wee Gaskins, though no concrete evidence ties him to this disappearance.

Does anyone who lived in Charleston in 1974 remember seeing Gary or have information about his movements that evening?