George William Hawkins was a 46-year-old constable and general store owner in Persimmon Grove, Kentucky, who vanished on April 3, 1961. That morning he made breakfast for his daughter, then left in his tan 1959 Plymouth Fury station wagon. About 1:00 p.m. he phoned his wife, saying he’d met with his attorney about an IRS audit and was on his way home; he reportedly sounded calm and was never heard from again.

Four days later the two-tone Plymouth was found abandoned at the river’s edge in Dayton, Kentucky, with the keys in the ignition and roughly half a tank of gas. The interior held muddy water, as if it had been rinsed, but there was no sign of a struggle or of Hawkins. Over the years investigators followed leads — a skull recovered from the Ohio River in 1980 yielded inconclusive DNA — and the case file has reportedly suffered from missing paperwork. Locals suspected involvement by organized crime connected to illegal gambling in nearby Newport, but no one has ever been charged.

Hawkins was a well-liked community member known as the Egg Man; his disappearance remains unsolved. If anyone knew George Hawkins, his movements that day, or has information about the Plymouth found at Dayton, please come forward.