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Missing Kyle Wade Clinkscales 
Clinkscales, approximately 1976; Age at the time of disappearance: -progression to Age at the time of disappearance: 61 (approximately 2015) Date reported missing : 01/27/1976 Missing location (approx) : LaGrange, Georgia Missing classification : Endangered Missing Gender : Male Ethnicity : White DOB : 10/02/1953 (67) Age at the time of disappearance: 22 years old Height / Weight : 5'11, 156 pounds Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A denim or suede jacket, a multi-colored blue shirt with a white tie, and denim pants. Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian male. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Clinkscales has previously fractured his right ring finger and chipped his ulna in his left arm. He may have a mustache. Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Clinkscales was last seen at the Moose Club in LaGrange, Georgia, at 11:00 p.m. on January 27, 1976. He left the club, where he tended bar two nights a week, intending to go 35 miles away to Auburn University, where he was a junior. He never arrived there and has never been heard from again. His vehicle, a white two-door 1974 Ford Pinto Runabout hatchback with the Georgia license plate number CEF-717 and the VIN number 4T11Y207954, has never been recovered. He was reported missing by his parents on February 3, a week later. It is uncharacteristic of Clinkscales to leave without warning; he was close to his parents and called him regularly or left notes telling of his whereabouts. His father initially believed he left of his own accord. Clinkscales had not been a good student at college. He initially enrolled at Auburn University after graduating high school, but made poor grades there and transferred to LaGrange University, where he continued to perform badly before dropping out of college altogether. He later re-enrolled at Auburn and changed his major from education to business administration, losing several credits in the process. He promised do better academically, but his first term's grades were not up to his expectations. His father theorized Clinkscales left and tried to start life anew under a different identity as a result of his poor college performance. In 1987, a man in Troup County, Georgia found Clinkscales's Exxon credit card in the Flat Shoal Creek area. Investigators searched the vicinity where the card was found but turned up no other evidence. In 2005, a man called Clinkscales's parents and told them that in 1976, when he was seven years old, he had witnessed the disposal of Clinkscales's body. The body, the informant said, had been covered with concrete, stuffed in a barrel, and dumped in a pond on private property. Searches of the pond turned up no sign of the barrel or any remains, but the tipster's information led to the arrest of Jimmy Earl Jones and, later, Jeanne Pawlak Johnson. Jones was charged with concealing a death, hindering the apprehension of a criminal and two counts of making false statements. Johnson was charged with concealing a death, making false statements, and obstructing justice. Neither has been charged with Clinkscales's murder; investigators believe the actual killer was a man named Ray Hyde. Hyde died in 2001. He had owned a salvAge at the time of disappearance: yard and police dug it up twice looking for Clinkscales's missing Pinto, but never found it. Investigators do not know why Clinkscales was killed, but they believe he may have had knowledge about Hyde's criminal activities, which involved car theft. Johnson was at Hyde's home the night Clinkscales vanished, though she later denied this. Authorities believe Jones did not participate in the murder but did help dispose of the body. They think Hyde moved the remains from the pond to an unknown location sometime afterwards. Clinkscales's body has never been found. His father wrote a book about his disappearance and other missing persons cases, entitled Kyle's Story: Friday Never Came. Clinkscales's father died in 2007 and his mother in 2021; in both their obituaries, their son was listed as having predeceased them. Foul play is suspected in his disappearance due to the circumstances involved. Other information and links : ncy Troup County Sheriff's Department 706-883-1746 706-883-1616 September 2021 updates and sources A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are not known. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2�5% of missing children in Europe. By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends. Several organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and imAge at the time of disappearance: s of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece. California Attorney General's Office NewsLibrary The Atlanta Journal-Constitution For the Lost WXIA News The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Kyle's Story, Friday Never Came: the Search for Missing People |