LA LA - Jeremiah Parker, 19, Baton Rouge, 11 April 2004

[Jake479]

charleyproject.org/cases/p/parker_jeremiah.html
findthemissing.org/cases/727

 

[BrownBear]

Jeremiah Jamal Parker​

Parker, circa 2004

• Missing Since 04/11/2004
• Missing From Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Male
• Race Black
• Date of Birth 05/28/1984 (39)
• Age 19 years old
• Height and Weight 5'6, 120 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description Baggy gray size 31-32 long shorts, a white t-shirt, a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap and a watch.
• Associated Vehicle(s) Red 1993 Pontiac Grand Am (accounted for)
• Distinguishing Characteristics African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes.

Details of Disappearance​

Parker was last seen with a cousin at approximately 6:00 p.m. on April 11, 2004, at the North Sherwood Forest Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He left his car, a red 1993 Pontiac Grand Am, behind the treeline in the northwest corner of the park and left his cousin inside the vehicle while he went into the park. He said he wanted to look for a cellular phone holder which he had lost.

Parker never returned. A search for him uncovered only his cellular phone and one of his shoes about fifty yards from where his car was parked.

Parker's loved ones are puzzled by his disappearance; he has not gone missing before and never even spent the night away from home without telling his parents. He worked at Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers and attended Baton Rouge Community College at the time of his disappearance.

He had seen the movie The Passion of the Christ shortly before his disappearance and was deeply moved by it. After watching the film, he told his family members he would be "leaving soon." It is unclear what Parker meant by this statement or whether the film had anything to do with his disappearance.

Parker's case remains unsolved. He may have traveled to Canada after he was last seen.

Jeremiah Jamal Parker – The Charley Project

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[Bit of hope]

Sometimes you stumble upon real strange stories. This is one of them. If you wanted to disappear, would you take your cousin along and leave him sitting in your car? Something must have happened to him. He most likely met up with one or more persons in the park and they took him. If police did their due diligence they searched in the fishing pond nearby and in the park for him. Not finding him means he was taken away from the park for whatever reason.

 

[Pennysmom1]

5241DMLA - Jeremiah Jamal Parker

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Not Available

Circumstances of Disappearance​

On April 1, 2004, Jeremiah Parker drove to the crowded North Sherwood Forest Park with his cousin around 6 p.m., saying he needed to look for a cell-phone holder he had lost. He parked his red 1993 Pontiac Grand Am in the Northwest corner of the park. Leaving the family member in the vehicle with the engine running, Jeremiah walked behind a row of trees next to a nearby fishing pond and never returned. His cell phone and one of his shoes were later found in the area. According to family members, Jeremiah never spent a night away from home without telling his parents, but no one has heard from him.