Friday Riley was 43 when he left his mother’s home in the Zemuly community near Sallis, Attala County, Mississippi, at about 11:00 a.m. on December 22, 2012, and never returned. He is described as a Black man with black hair and brown eyes, about 5 feet 5 inches and 150 pounds. He was reportedly wearing a brown, orange, and white shirt, blue jeans, and blue-and-white striped shoes when last seen.

Friends and family had been used to him wandering off at times; Sheriff Tim Nail noted Riley had done so earlier in 2012 and had returned in past episodes. This absence proved different. Family members reported him missing on January 7, 2013, and local searches by the Attala County Sheriff’s Department, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, and others turned up no evidence explaining his whereabouts.

A later discovery of skeletal remains in 2015 was ruled to be a different person, Mykendriona Mimi Lewis, leaving Riley’s case unresolved. The case remains open and listed as missing with the Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons, with the Attala County Sheriff’s Department identified as the investigating agency.

If anyone has information about where Friday went after he left his mother’s home on December 22, 2012, please share what you know.