George Everette Melton was 46 when he disappeared from a relative’s home in King William County, Virginia, on a late evening in October 1997. He was reportedly very sick and disoriented at the time because of a prior head injury that may have caused memory loss and confusion. When the relative woke the next morning, Melton was gone and has not been seen or heard from since that day.

He was described as a white male with graying black hair, blue eyes, and a full beard. At the time he went missing he was last seen wearing a white shirt, black jeans, white sneakers, and a green United States Army jacket. The fact he vanished from a family home while disoriented has long been a central concern for his family and investigators.

An obituary for a George Everette Melton, aged 54, of King William, appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch in January 2006, and an online condolence message referenced relief that the family finally had some closure. The circumstances of what happened after he left the house in October 1997 remain unclear. Does anyone have information about George’s movements in late 1997 or what led to the obituary in 2006?