William Bud Hardy, a 62-year-old white man from Yuma, Arizona, was last seen on February 16, 2019. His fiancée and caregiver had been away visiting her mother and lost contact with him; the disappearance was reported to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office on February 17, 2019. A neighbor later reported seeing him leave his residence on the morning of February 23 in his blue 2012 Chevrolet Silverado. He was believed to be wearing a light blue t-shirt and tan plaid pajama pants and did not have a cell phone with him.

Hardy suffered from dementia, a condition noted as increasing his vulnerability if he became disoriented. Fifty days after he was last seen, his locked Silverado was found abandoned in a remote area of the Sonoran Desert south of the Fortuna Foothills, about six miles southeast of Foothills Boulevard and East County 14th Street and under ten miles from the Mexican border; the keys were not in the truck and no obvious signs of foul play were reported. Investigators observed no footprints or tire tracks leading away, a detail attributed to the time elapsed. The case has gone cold and his whereabouts remain unknown.

If anyone has information about William Hardy’s movements in February 2019 or the area where his truck was found, please share what is known.