John Dewayne Burrell was 35 when he left Horatio, Arkansas, on November 4, 1972, and traveled to McCurtain County, Oklahoma, with another person. Described as having blond or strawberry-colored hair and standing between 5 feet 7 inches and 6 feet tall, he remained in Oklahoma for more than a year before the last confirmed sighting.

The final reported sighting occurred December 12, 1973, in a rural area west of Broken Bow, Oklahoma. After that, information indicates he may have been taken to the Little River Bridge about two miles south of Horatio in Sevier County, Arkansas. Searches of the Little River followed but turned up no sign of him.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations, Southeast Regional Office, has jurisdiction. No contact or confirmed whereabouts have been reported since December 12, 1973. Does anyone who lived in McCurtain County or the Horatio area in 1972–1973 have information about Burrell’s movements or the person he was with?