On the afternoon of May 16, 1965, 68-year-old Emmie Clyde Smith left his Gilt Edge, Tennessee, home intending to visit the Bishop Glass Bar near Hazel Grove Road. He was driving an olive-colored 1962 Buick LeSabre with Tennessee plate 30-T239 and was seen in front of the bar; after that he and the car vanished under unexplained circumstances.

Investigators followed sparse leads in the weeks after his disappearance. Three unidentified men were arrested three months later, and at one point three suspects were questioned by the FBI, but no public resolution is recorded and original agency files from 1965 are reportedly missing. Family theories have ranged from a car accident with the vehicle submerged to suspicion of foul play.

The case was added to NamUs in October 2020, and investigators later collected a DNA sample from Smith’s daughter to assist any future identification. Does anyone remember Emmie, his Buick, or seeing anything in the Gilt Edge area that Sunday afternoon?