William Denzel Newman Jr., 24, was last seen at his Slidell, Louisiana, residence on January 8, 1980. He was a U.S. Navy veteran sometimes known as Richard. Described as a white male, 5 feet 7 inches, about 150 pounds, with dark blond or black hair, blue eyes and tattoos on both arms and shoulders, he may have been wearing a red short-sleeved shirt with stripes around the collar when he vanished.

Few details have been released about his movements after that day; investigators have suggested he might have traveled to nearby Lacombe, Louisiana, but that was never confirmed. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office lists his disappearance as an open case and his information has been entered into national missing-persons databases.

If anyone in Slidell or Lacombe around January 1980 remembers William Newman or has information about where he might have gone, please share what you know.