Missing
Ruben Primrose Wiggins
Wiggins, approximately 1988
Date and time person was reported missing : 11/20/1988
Missing location (approx) :
Pitt County, North Carolina
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 09/25/1938 (82)
Age at the time of disappearance: 50 years old
Height / Weight : 5'10, 180 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A gray shirt, tan work pants, black boots and a gold watch with the initials "GP" on the face.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Gray hair, brown eyes.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Wiggins was last seen in Pitt County, North Carolina on November 20, 1988. At 10:30 a.m., he received a telephone call, and afterwards he acted fearful and refused to say who the call was from. A short time later, he left his house with $500 in cash and never returned.
He has never been heard from again. A month after his disappearance, his light blue 1978 Oldsmobile was found abandoned in a wooded area off Maple Cypress Road in Craven County, North Carolina. Wiggins often cut down trees for money, and he had three chainsaws in the trunk of his car at the time of his disappearance. When his vehicle was located, one of the chainsaws was missing.
According to his brother, Wiggins lived quietly and frugally. He never married or had any children, and worked for the Georgia-Pacific Railroad for most of his adult life. His brother stated he also smoked marijuana and sometimes sold it.
His brother believes he was murdered and possibly cut up with the missing chainsaw and fed to pigs. He believes he who the assailants were; he thinks they were people whom Wiggins had known well and trusted. One of the suspects in his disappearance was killed in a car wreck shortly after Wiggins disappeared. The person's identity has never been released.
Foul play is suspected in Wiggins's disappearance, but little evidence is available in his case. He was declared legally dead in 2007.
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Warren Police Department
330-394-2521
September 2021 updates and sources
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October 12, 2004. March 26, 2018; Description, clothing, jewerly and more : added, Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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