Benjamin Lloyd Coffey was 27 when he made a final phone call on the evening of December 31, 2012, telling a friend he was in Richmond, Virginia, and on his way home. He was last described as a white male, brown hair, hazel eyes, 5 feet 6 inches, about 150 pounds, wearing a tan coat, blue jeans and brown leather boots, with a band tattoo on the inside of his right arm.
On January 1, 2013, his full-sized van was found abandoned on Hobbs Hole Drive near a Holiday Inn Express in Tappahannock, Virginia. The vehicle contained some personal items, his cell phone, and his dog, which had food and water; one window was rolled down. Coffey had no permanent address, may have been living in the van, frequented Gloucester and Middlesex County, and owned a sailboat moored in Deltaville. A bloodhound reportedly followed a scent to a swamp before the trail ended.
His father does not believe Coffey walked away, the family has offered a reward, and the Tappahannock Police Department lists the case as unsolved. Did anyone in Gloucester, Middlesex County, or along the Tappahannock-Richmond route see Benjamin or his van around December 31, 2012?