Marion Grant Watts, 26, was a Louisiana State University electrical engineering student and salesman when he vanished from his Baton Rouge home in early summer 1983. Described as quiet and studious and recently grieving his mother’s death, Watts last spoke with his aunt by phone; during that call she heard a car horn and he said he needed to help a friend move appliances. That was the last confirmed contact.

About a week later his grandfather found the house empty. Watts’s wallet remained on the bed and both of his only two pairs of shoes were in the bedroom, suggesting he may have left barefoot. He is described as a Caucasian male, 6 feet 2 inches, about 175 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes and a scar on his left leg near the hip. The Baton Rouge Police Department investigated but the case went cold.

Does anyone who knew Marion or his circle in 1983 remember the friend he mentioned or any unusual activity around his home that spring?