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MAR 6, 2024
...Lack of progress has not stopped Fortner’s family from hoping, searching, and doing everything they can to bring him home. They rented a billboard in spring 2023, to spread awareness and set up a Facebook page to solicit information.
Occasionally, the family receives tips about sightings with no results. Woodard contacted Texas EquuSearch, a nonprofit dedicated to locating missing persons, hoping to bring in resources for another search of Fortner’s last whereabouts. She is now raising funds for a private investigator. Human remains were located in Jackson County and surrounding areas several times last year. Each time a body is found, it rips the band aid off of a barely healing wound. Woodard doesn’t want to hope or worry the remains are Fortner’s.
He said he kept seeing a man with a dog. His younger sister later remembered her brother insisting there was a dog outside Dollar General, but she did not see one. The next day Fortner’s family knew something was wrong when they had not heard from him. Fortner’s mother, sisters and stepfather met at his home. The previously tidy camper was in disarray with his belongings strewn all over. A fan was running, and the lights and an electric blanket were left on.
Fortner was nowhere to be found. The only trace of him was his baseball cap dropped on an embankment near depressions that looked as if he may have been sitting there. The only other possible clue came from a neighbor’s security camera.
Around 5 p.m. a white Toyota 4runner stopped at the end of the driveway, sat for 15 minutes, drove to the house, stayed for 15 minutes and left. The SUV and its driver were never identified.
Occasionally, the family receives tips about sightings with no results. Woodard contacted Texas EquuSearch, a nonprofit dedicated to locating missing persons, hoping to bring in resources for another search of Fortner’s last whereabouts. She is now raising funds for a private investigator. Human remains were located in Jackson County and surrounding areas several times last year. Each time a body is found, it rips the band aid off of a barely healing wound. Woodard doesn’t want to hope or worry the remains are Fortner’s.
Fortner was nowhere to be found. The only trace of him was his baseball cap dropped on an embankment near depressions that looked as if he may have been sitting there. The only other possible clue came from a neighbor’s security camera.
Around 5 p.m. a white Toyota 4runner stopped at the end of the driveway, sat for 15 minutes, drove to the house, stayed for 15 minutes and left. The SUV and its driver were never identified.
