George Owens, 79, an associate minister from Nashville, Tennessee, vanished on July 22, 1985, after failing to pick up his wife from the bus station. His car was missing from the garage and the couple’s dining table remained set; his hat was in its usual place and the dog was left hungry.

Witness reports placed him hours after the missed pickup at a service station in Santa Fe, Tennessee, about 80 miles away, where the attendant said he seemed confused and asked for directions. The next day he was reported in Lobelville buying ice cream and cigars and saying he could not find his wife. Six days after he was last seen, his 1972 Dodge Dart was found on a remote Perry County hilltop with the keys in the ignition, the driver’s window down, a dead battery, his cane propped against the car, a suit jacket inside, a box of matches on the dash, kindling in the back seat and piles of brush arranged around the vehicle. A witness reported a pickup following the car up the logging road and leaving alone soon after. Extensive searches found no trace of George Owens.

Did anyone in the area know George or see him on that logging road or in the days after July 22, 1985?