James Thomas Wiggins was 21 when he left his home on Vaughn Avenue in Ruston, Louisiana, on December 21, 2002, saying he was walking to a nearby grocery store for cigarettes. He was wearing jeans, a red flannel jacket, a baseball cap, athletic shoes and carrying an umbrella. He worked as a dishwasher at Anthony’s, a local Italian restaurant.

The morning after he was last seen a man found asleep on the doorstep of Goose Creek Grocery on White Lightning Road used James Wiggins’s identification to buy cigarettes; the store owner believed the man was James. Weeks later a woman said she spoke with him in Jonesboro, about 20 miles away. Family reported recent concerns about his mental health and that his mother had him committed for a psychiatric evaluation shortly before he disappeared. No confirmed trace of James has been found and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Ruston or the surrounding area see James around December 21, 2002, or have information about the reported sightings at Goose Creek Grocery or in Jonesboro?