Jesse James Myers was 36 when he left his Wilkesboro, North Carolina home on the evening of July 11, 1983, after receiving a phone call from an unidentified person asking to meet. He told his family he was going to meet that individual and never returned; he has not been seen or heard from since.

Three days later his car was found abandoned at a rest area on Interstate 77 in northern Iredell County. Investigators reportedly found a large quantity of marijuana inside the vehicle, a detail that introduced a possible link to illegal drug activity and complicated the inquiry.

The Wilkes County Sheriff’s Office lists the case as an active missing person investigation. Few other public details are available about what happened after the car was recovered. Did anyone in the Wilkesboro or Iredell County area see Jesse or his vehicle around July 11–14, 1983, or know who might have been calling him that night?