Leroy Butler, known as Reverend Lee Roy Butler, was 85 when he disappeared on October 30, 2001 while returning to Memphis from Arkansas. The last contact with his wife was a phone call in which he reportedly sounded disoriented; he may have been in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Cell phone records later placed his phone near Birmingham, Alabama, which is far from his intended route.

Two days after he was reported missing, his vehicle was found abandoned and stuck in a field in Bolivar, Tennessee. He had been dressed in a grey wool suit, lavender shirt and tie, black Stacy Adams shoes, glasses with large gold frames, and several pieces of jewelry including a gold wedding band with diamonds, a plain gold band, a white gold Masonic ring with a diamond, and a gold watch. Despite searches by the Memphis Police Department and his family, Reverend Butler was never located.

The combination of the car’s location and the puzzling cell phone data has not produced answers. If anyone knew Reverend Butler’s travel plans that week or saw him or his vehicle around October 30, 2001, please share what is known.