Kevin Guy Hamby was 38 when he was last seen on November 14, 2017, near his home on T Rich Road in the Lancing and Gobey area of Morgan County, Tennessee. He left alone around 7:00 p.m. to ride a recently acquired Polaris RZR side-by-side—described as black, yellow, and white or predominantly white—wearing jeans, a gray hooded sweatshirt, a black baseball cap, and brown boots. Hamby, who stood about 5 feet 11 inches and weighed roughly 254 pounds, walked with a noticeable limp after thirteen hip surgeries and lived with chronic pain.

A large search involving law enforcement, volunteers, tracking dogs and aircraft examined the mountainous, densely vegetated countryside but turned up no immediate trace of Hamby or the vehicle. In March 2021 a Tennessee Highway Patrol aircraft located the Polaris lodged against a tree about 250 yards below a ridgeline in remote terrain that had previously lacked aerial coverage. Searchers recovered a shoe, jeans, a belt, a hooded sweatshirt, a revolver, a pocketknife and later a human skull; officials said the skull appeared male and probably connected to Hamby but required DNA confirmation. Investigators said the vehicle’s position was consistent with a crash and that the distribution of belongings could reflect movement, weather, or wildlife; reports did not establish how the RZR left the trail or whether anyone else was involved.

Did anyone in the Morgan County area see Hamby or the side-by-side on the evening of November 14, 2017?