Missing
Silas Sessions Jr.
Sessions, approximately 1999
Date and time person was reported missing : 07/09/1999
Missing location (approx) :
Charleston, South Carolina
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
Black
DOB : 11/21/1943 (77)
Age at the time of disappearance: 55 years old
Height / Weight : 5'11, 130 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A plaid shirt, khaki pants and a blue cap.
Medical conditions : Sessions suffered from mental problems in 1999. He was also a heavy alcohol drinker. He needs to take medication three times a day to prevent seizures.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Sessions may have a mustache, beard or a goatee.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Sessions was living with his mother on Wolf Street in Charleston, South Carolina in 1999. On the morning of July 9, she was cooking breakfast when he told her he was going across the street to buy cigarettes. He never returned to their residence.
Later that day, Sessions was admitted to Charleston Memorial Hospital on Calhoun Street after he fell on the pavement while returning home from a gas station. He may have been severely dehydrated and/or intoxicated, but the reasons for his admission are unclear. He was treated there and hospital staff thought he was well enough to go home by himself.
Sessions left the hospital and attempted to hail a cab, but got into an argument with the driver, who refused to take him anywhere. A police officer offered to give Sessions a ride home, but he refused assistance and walked away. He has never been heard from again.
Foul play is not suspected in Sessions's disappearance; authorities believe he became confused and wandered away. His case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Charleston Police Department
803-577-7434
September 2021 updates and sources
Charleston Police Department
ABC News 4 Charleston
The Doe Network
October 12, 2004. August 30, 2010; Description, clothing, jewerly and more : : and Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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