TN TN - Cody Matney, 24, Bristol, 28 April 2002

[Rle7]

Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: April 28, 2002 from Bristol, Tennessee
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: December 29, 1977
Age: 24 years old
Height and Weight: 5'8, 170 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes. Matney normally shaved his head at the time of his April 2002 disappearance. He has a tattoo of The Incredible Hulk on his upper right arm and a tattoo of Batman and Gotham City on his upper left arm.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A navy blue long-sleeved shirt, jeans, a blue University Of Florida Gators hat imprinted with the letter "F" and a gold rope chain.
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Details of Disappearance

Matney was last seen in Bristol, Tennessee on April 28, 2002. He was outside Confetti's Sports Bar in the 3200 block of West State Street. The establishment is off of Exit 74-B along Interstate 81. Witnesses told authorities that Matney made a call from the bar's pay phone, then sat inside his truck in the parking lot. He has never been heard from again.
Matney's vehicle was discovered abandoned in the bar's parking lot five days afterwards. His checkbook was inside his truck, but there was no other evidence at the scene. There has not been any activity on Matney's bank account since April 2002. Authorities believe that Matney may have departed from the bar with an acquaintance. His disappearance remains unsolved.
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Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Bristol Police Department
423-764-TIPS

Source Information
The National Center for Missing Adults
The Bristol Herald Courier

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/matney_cody.html

 

[Rle7]

Cody Scott Matney
Gone, April 28, 2002​

"He didn’t just vanish into thin air."​

More than five years after her younger brother, Cody, went missing, Tracie Farmer falls back on this basic premise, the only thing of which she feels certain: A 5-foot-9, 170-pound weightlifter is no butterfly in the wind.​

Innumerable times she’s parsed through the facts of the night he went missing.​

There was the date with a girl in Bristol on a Saturday night; the bouncer at a bar who remembered the then 24-year-old’s "baby face;" the worker who placed him at a different bar later on, making calls on a pay phone.​

There were the eight phone calls Matney made with a calling card, most of them lost to investigators, and the grainy footage of him in his truck, talking to an unidentified person in another truck, in the predawn hours of April 28, 2002.​

Finally, there was Matney’s 1991 Ford Ranger parked outside the now-defunct bar Confetti’s, facing U.S. Highway 11W.​

Fade out.​

http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/news.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2008-01-27-0012.html​

 

[neverletgo]

:bump: for Cody, missing 11 years this month.

Cody Scott Matney​

 

[YaYa_521]

Posting due to the location.

Police: Human remains discovered near Industrial Drive in Bristol
May. 31, 2022
SBBM

...an area near 101 Industrial Drive
...“human skeletal remains located in a nearby wooded area.”
...have not been identified as of Tuesday afternoon
#

Per Google Maps it's 6.2 miles (12 mins) from Confetti's to the location of the remains.

ETA - link to Cody's NamUs profile

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Victim Information​

CODY SCOTT MATNEY​

Gender:MaleHeight:5'8"Hair Color:BrownAge:25Race:WhiteWeight:170Eye Color:Brown

Case Details​

VIRGINIA STATE POLICE – DIVISION FOUR – CASE: 12-19445​

ABOUT THE CASE:​

Matney was last seen in Bristol, Tennessee on April 28, 2002. He was outside Confetti's Sports Bar in the 3200 block of West State Street. The establishment is off of Exit 74-B along Interstate 81. Witnesses told authorities that Matney made a call from the bar's pay phone, then sat inside his 1991 Ford Ranger truck in the parking lot, talking to an unidentified person in another truck. He has never been heard from again. Matney's truck was discovered abandoned in the bar's parking lot five days after his disappearance. His checkbook was sitting on the dash, but there was no other evidence at the scene. There has not been any activity on Matney's bank account since April 2002. He is known to have made eight telephone calls on his calling card around the time of his disappearance, but most of the numbers he called have been lost. Authorities believe that Matney may have departed from the bar with an acquaintance and may have been taken to Buchanan County, Virginia. His disappearance remains unsolved. NAMUS # MP155

Virginia State Police – Division Four – Case: 12-19445 – Wytheville – VSP Division Four

 

[Atombudd]

Find Cody Matney​

 

[LongTimeChinaTime]

Bump for Matney

I would like to brainstorm ideas in Matney’s case.

I have not seen any information shedding light on what type of work Cody did for a living. I do know when regular men are victims of foul play, sometimes it is related to everyday business disputes.

In 2002 when Cody disappeared, I don’t think investigators would have always thought to try looking at the victim’s computer to see if internet behavior could give any clues to who the victim might have interacted with online. Ideas such as occupational business, or drugs and sex, something. Date with a girl or not, the phenomenon of men secretly meeting other men on anonymous internet venues was ubiquitous in 2002 in a way much more covert and kept under wraps than it would be today, even though we obviously know no evidence of something like this being a solution to this case. But meeting someone you’ve spoken to online in the parking lot of a bar, located right off the interstate, and following them back to wherever would seem reasonable if you were going to have a hookup. So would leaving your vehicle in the parking lot and riding to wherever with them. It could even be something to do with sex in a heterosexual capacity, though heterosexual hookups often follow different and more protracted patterns of execution. The secret anonymous hookup idea is an idea which people close to the victim might balk at considering in many cases in the Generation x and older, ESPECIALLY in 2002 in the south. Granted, after time passed you would think someone would have eventually wanted to go through his computer to see what they could find, though if it hasn’t been done by now who knows if there’s anyplace left to look.

I haven’t seen whether or not if they know if Cody’s truck ever left the bar between the time he was last seen and the time the truck got the attention of investigators, still parked at the bar 5 days later.

I would think that if drugs were involved, a simple small deal would be squared right there in the parking lot, whereas leaving the bar to go deal with it, whether by following or riding with, might suggest any such deal was larger than your average $50 score and required more privacy.

I have not seen any clues reported that would shine light on what Matney was up to that night, but in the absence of known evidence it’s important to consider ideas which could explain someone disappearing without a trace for decades, without anyone close to the victim apparently having any idea who could have been involved.

 

[LongTimeChinaTime]

Posting due to the location.

Police: Human remains discovered near Industrial Drive in Bristol
May. 31, 2022
SBBM

...an area near 101 Industrial Drive
...“human skeletal remains located in a nearby wooded area.”
...have not been identified as of Tuesday afternoon
#

Per Google Maps it's 6.2 miles (12 mins) from Confetti's to the location of the remains.

ETA - link to Cody's NamUs profile

Definitely worth checking to see, although I looked up the location and have some doubt that these remains are Cody if for no other reason than the area they were found is relatively small. It’s hard to imagine human remains being undiscovered there for more than a few years. Also, I would imagine given that Cody disappeared in 2002, remains that old in that climate may be quite degraded after 20+ years. But, it’s possible.