Floyd Roger Hurst, 43, left his Oxford, Alabama home on Sunny Eve Road on the evening of January 26, 1997, intending to attend a Super Bowl party at the Red Horse Lounge in nearby Anniston. His former wife was reportedly the last person to see him. When he never arrived, concern grew; a friend at the lounge called to ask why he had not shown up. Hurst’s blue 1990 Dodge Caravan was later found abandoned at the Georgia Welcome Center off Interstate 20, far from his intended destination.

Investigators focused on Hurst’s next-door neighbor, Jack David Jackie Stovall II, who had a history of violent behavior and believed Hurst and a friend, Barry Jackson, had robbed him. Stovall was later arrested in connection with an alleged attempt to hire someone to kill Jackson; that meeting reportedly took place at the same Georgia Welcome Center where Hurst’s van was found. According to allegations, Stovall claimed he had already killed Hurst and hidden his body, and authorities have said they suspect Hurst died from total body traumatic fragmentation. No remains have been recovered and the disappearance remains unsolved.