Andrew Thomas Watson was 38 when he disappeared from South Lansing on the night of January 12, 2021. He was last seen about 11:00 p.m. on Georgetown Boulevard wearing a black jogging suit with red and white details on the jacket. Friends said he was a high-stakes poker player who went by nicknames Skrill and Moneybags and that he reportedly carried between $10,000 and $15,000 in cash the night he vanished while on his way to play poker with a man named Willie James Jr.

Police treated the disappearance as suspicious from the start. Officers later stopped James and noticed a missing section of carpet in his SUV and that he had a large amount of money. Forensic testing of the vehicle recovered Andrew Watson’s blood in multiple locations, including around the front passenger seat and under a fabric cover, and investigators reported what appeared to be a bullet hole in the front passenger door frame. A few weeks later a plastic bag found in a yard contained three of Watson’s cell phones, a pair of rubber gloves, and half of a $20 bill; those items also tested positive for his blood.

Did anyone in the Lansing area see Watson the night he disappeared or notice anything unusual around Georgetown Boulevard on January 12, 2021?