Stephen Victor Meeks, 32, vanished from Reidsville, North Carolina, on November 24, 1988. His wife reported she last saw him at their home near Route 5 and Box 58H at about 6:00 a.m. that Thanksgiving morning; she said he left in his black 1973 Ford F-150, North Carolina plate CTS7429, after an argument. He was expected at a family dinner later that day and never arrived.

Conflicting timelines emerged early. The couple’s three children, then ages 11, 10, and 8, told investigators their father was not home when they returned from church with a friend the previous evening and that they did not see him that day. At the time Stephen disappeared he and his wife had a troubled marriage: she had filed for divorce in late 1987, they reportedly reconciled in fall 1988, and Stephen had hired an attorney and was seeking custody of the children.

Stephen was described as 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 8 inches, 175 to 185 pounds, with dark brown hair, blue eyes and a tattoo on his left arm of an orange Tasmanian Devil with his initials S.V.M. Neither he nor his truck have ever been found. Does anyone from Reidsville remember seeing Stephen or that 1973 Ford around Thanksgiving 1988?