James Davis Walker, known as Slim, was 53 and 6 feet 7 inches tall when he disappeared from Bedford, Virginia. The last reported sighting was April 7, 2000, between 9:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.; friends say he waited in a car in the Food Lion parking lot at Peaksview Shopping Center while they went inside and returned to find him gone. He lived in Thraxton and was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt, a black or green baseball cap, and work boots. He had graying, balding hair, blue eyes, and tattoos on his left arm with the initials J.W. and P.W.

Surveillance footage from the store that day reportedly does not show Walker with the people who said they were with him, and one woman who initially gave a detailed interview later recanted. A tip from an inmate prompted a search of friend Donald Adams’s property in early 2001 but turned up no evidence. Walker’s family, including his son Bobby, believes multiple people are responsible and remains hopeful the investigation will yield answers.

Did anyone in Bedford or Thraxton see James Walker or know where he might have been that morning?