LA LA - Ouachita Parish, WhtMale 42-50, UP1876, western styled clothes, lizard cowboy boots, Nov'82

[Melt71]

Rule outs:

Clarence Dellis 1940 Louisiana
Jimmy Long 1953 Louisiana

Same 2 ruleouts visible in Namus plus at least one we assume was ruled out via CODIS - David Edward Parker (see earlier posts in this thread back in 2011).

What do people think about Georgie Ray Abney, 50yo from TN last seen December 1981 and 5'9. Photo in his Namus shows he seems to favour a plaid shirt and seems to have light brown hair sandy-ish hair. There is no indication why he would have travelled 500 miles away, but we have recently seen several long term Does be identified as people from further away than this. Mr Abney doesn't have Doe Network or Charley Project pages www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/37751/details?nav

 

[cenazoic]

Cutter Bill’s was a high end brand “…aimed more at oil company execs than the average roughneck out in the fields. But for those well-heeled enough, the western skies were the limit. For $750, a guy in 1981 could have himself a 14 carat gold oil derrick ring with three diamonds spewing out of the top, and keep his pants latched up with a $300 western-style, oil-derrick-emblazoned belt buckle.”

A Glimpse Into the Wild Ride of Cutter Bill Western World Is a Texas Time Capsule

In the late 1970s and early '80s, Texas emerged into national prominence in a way that it never had before. Suddenly, the Lone Star State was "cool," or at least cooler than it had ever been. A combination of cowboy culture and oil money played out in mythic fashion on...

www.houstonpress.com

Interestingly, but probably unrelated to this UID, the CEO/founder of Cutter Bill’s, Rex Cauble, was indicted on racketeering/drug trafficking charges in 1982

Rex Cauble and the Cowboy Mafia

The Denton millionaire hated drugs and liked cops. He also liked Muscles Foster, a footloose cowboy who was one of Texas’ biggest drug runners.

www.texasmonthly.com