Missing
Bruce Neal Walls
Walls, approximately 1980
Date and time person was reported missing : 09/05/1980
Missing location (approx) :
West Palm Beach, Florida
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 11/14/1950 (70)
Age at the time of disappearance: 29 years old
Height / Weight : 5'8, 115 - 125 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Red hair, green eyes. Walls may have a beard. He may wear eyeglasses.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Walls was last seen in West Palm Beach, Florida on September 5, 1980. He was carrying a briefcase which is believed to have contained over $100,000 worth of diamonds and other precious stones. He had been in West Palm Beach to visit family members and attend a friend's wedding, and told a colleague he was going to sell his gemstones to a buyer in the area.
Walls was driving a red or maroon 1980 Mercury Cougar with the Florida license plate number ZCW 980. He had rented the vehicle from a Hertz car rental company.
His car was found abandoned at the Fort Pierce Service Plaza on the southbound Florida turnpike the same day he was last seen, with the keys still in the ignition. There was no sign of foul play at the scene, but the vehicle had been driven 500 miles that could not be accounted for.
Walls was a highly successful diamond merchant in 1980; he owned a jewelry business called R and W Gem Imports and frequently carried small gemstones with him when he traveled around the state making sales.
Investigators described him as a good businessman who owned properties in Hawaii, Canada and South America as well as businesses in Gainesville, Florida. It's possible he was robbed and this caused his disappearance.
Walls left all his personal belongings behind. His case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
West Palm Beach Police Department
561-822-1688
September 2021 updates and sources
The Doe Network
West Palm Beach Police Department
The Lakeland Ledger
The Palm Beach Post
The Fort Myers News-Press
October 12, 2004. July 1, 2017; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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