Family of man missing for 15 years hopes event will raise awareness
By Tom Wilmoth
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 9:11 am (Updated: April 8, 9:12 am)
... The children of James Davis Walker want answers—they want the truth of
what happened to their father. ...
Fifteen years ago this week, on April 7, 2000, James Walker
disappeared.
The story then was that the slim, 6 foot, 7 inch man rode with some friends to Food Lion in Bedford, but did not go into the store because he wanted to smoke. When his friends came back out, he had supposedly vanished. The reports at the time were that he had wandered away.
But the account of just who Walker was allegedly with and where he supposedly went to smoke the cigarette have changed from the initial reports released to the public. When investigators began digging up dirt on Taylor’s Mountain last fall, some residents of the community initially thought they were looking for James Walker.
They weren’t—they were looking for the two sisters from Maryland who disappeared in 1975 and are thought to have been buried here—but the activity stirred up interest in the local case as well. Chatter on Facebook pages renewed interest among the community; the Bedford Police Department had also begun reexamining the cold case with fresh eyes....
LINK:
http://www.bedfordbulletin.com/content/looking-answers