Missing
Jeffrey Keith Hegwood
Hegwood, approximately 1980
Date and time person was reported missing : 03/20/1980
Missing location (approx) :
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 02/06/1957 (64)
Age at the time of disappearance: 23 years old
Height / Weight : 5'10, 158 pounds
Medical conditions : Hegwood suffers from mild seasonal allergies, including hay fever.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Dark brown hair, brown or blue eyes. Hegwood may have a mustache. He has a diagonal scar on his inner left eyebrow and he wears eyeglasses or contact lenses.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Hegwood was last seen in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on March 20, 1980. He had a date scheduled for 9:00 p.m. that night and he went to the bank and then purchased flowers for the date, but never showed up for it. His roommates came home that night to find the door of their apartment open and Hegwood missing.
That same night, a car matching the description of Hegwood's struck another car carrying three people. Hegwood's vehicle was subsequently found parked on a dead-end street with a muddy handprint on it.
Six months later, Hegwood's half-brother, whom he had never met, was killed in a police shoot-out in the Canadian province of Ontario. He was carrying Hegwood's identification at the time of his death.
Authorities don't believe Hegwood's half-brother was responsible for his disappearance, but they think he stole some of his belongings prior to his disappearance.
Hegwood enjoyed hunting, fishing and canoeing in 1980. He owned his own bar and worked there at the time of his disappearance, and he was supposed to graduate from college in two weeks. His case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Hattiesburg Police Department
601-545-4900
September 2021 updates and sources
ID-Wanted.org
The Clarion-Ledger
7 October 12, 2004. July 25, 2017; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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