Derrick Burgess Odear was 32 when he was last seen in Tennessee. His family last saw him on December 27, 2021, and the last confirmed contact came on January 13, 2022, in Nashville. Family members believe he may have been living in the Nashville area after walking away from a treatment facility in Manchester.

Derrick is described as a white male with blue eyes and brownish-blonde hair, 6 feet 1 inch tall and about 150 pounds. The timeline has been difficult to reconstruct: his father filed a missing person report with the Manchester Police Department in December 2021, but investigators later learned Nashville police had contact with him in January 2022, shifting the focus of the search to Nashville.

The Manchester Police Department is asking anyone with information about Derrick’s whereabouts to come forward. If anyone knew Derrick’s routines, places he visited, or saw him around Nashville or Manchester in late December 2021 or January 2022, please share what was seen.