Louis Boggs, Sr., 67, vanished after leaving his Baton Rouge lounge on the evening of January 29, 1979. He told staff he had to run an errand after a phone call, left behind his .357 magnum and the night’s bank bag, and was seen driving away in his green and yellow 1975 Ford LTD. His son later reported him missing.

Investigators found bloodstains inside Boggs’s home on Glen Oaks Drive. Two weeks later the Ford LTD was recovered in a wooded area in Chipley, Florida; inside was Boggs’s stepson, Clifford Earl Lewin, who had been living with him. The car trunk held a dirt-caked shovel, a knife, clothing and papers stained with human blood, and the trunk liner was bloodstained. Forensic testing at the time identified the blood as Type B, matching Boggs; soil on the shovel matched soil found near the Mississippi River. Boggs’s son said his father would not have willingly lent the car. Lewin had been committed by Boggs in 1978 and reportedly threatened that Boggs’s body would be found in the river if it happened again.

Did anyone in Baton Rouge or Chipley at the time see Boggs’s Ford LTD after January 29, 1979, or remember unusual activity near the Mississippi River?