NC NC - Jeffery Combs, 41, North Wilkesboro, 23 Oct 2008

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[h=1]'I'm Still Looking, 'Til I Die': Wilkes Co. Mom Searches For Son Missing 10 Years[/h]

WILKES COUNTY, N.C. -- Lucy Combs knows her son Jeffrey inside and out.

“He's got a heart as big as gold," she says. "Do anything for anybody”
Her son Jeffery Combs character and compassion are always fresh in her mind, despite not having seen him in 10 years. That memory is fresh in her mind, too.

"He had left a note on the table," she says, remembering the October day. 41-year-old Jeffery wrote that his scooter had been stolen and that he was going out to look for it. If he wasn't back by dark, he wanted his mother to come looking for him.

When he didn't come back, Lucy went looking. After searching all night, with no luck, Lucy went to the Wilkes County Sheriff's Office and reported her son missing. On the Wilkes County Crimestoppers page, a report says investigators have been searching in the area of the bridge on Suncrest Orchard Road.

Sigmon is a volunteer with the CUE Center, a Wilmington-based organization that helps families with missing loved ones. Each year he says the organization works on more than 1,000 cases across the country. Sigmon tries to focus on a couple at a time. He’s been on the Jeffery Combs case for 8 years and thinks the suspects could still be around.

“We think that they had took some items and he was going to recover those items and we think bad things happened during that process."

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/n...earches-for-son-missing-10-years/83-551118123


Circumstances: Jeffrey Lynn Combs was reported missing to the Wilkes County Sheriff’s Office on 10/23/2008.

Jeffrey lived with his mother on Browns Waugh Street in North Wilkesboro and was last seen at the home. When his mother came home from work around 11 o’clock the morning of Oct. 24, her son was gone. Food was left in a hot pan on the stove and she found wet tattered clothes that belonged to her son. He had left a note that his scooter and two helmets, along with a cell phone had been stolen. “In the note he said he was gone to track it down and, ‘If I’m not back by dark, come looking for me.”

After failing to locate her son, the mother contacted investigators, deputies joined in the search. A couple of days after the disappearance, law enforcement officers found the missing scooter near the river off Suncrest Orchard Road with pieces missing. They also located one of the missing helmets.
His mother reported that shortly before his disappearance he had befriended some homeless people who had been camping along the Reddies River not far from their home.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/7997/2

 

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Mother of man missing since 2008 asks that he be declared deceased

The mother of a Wilkes County man missing for over 10 years is asking that a judge declare him deceased in accordance with state law and find her the beneficiary of his life insurance policy.

The complaint said Lucy Combs took out the life insurance policy on Jeffrey Combs from Globe Life & Accident Insurance Co. of Oklahoma before he disappeared. It said she has paid all the premiums and that the life insurance policy is still in effect.

Mother of man missing since 2008 asks that he be declared deceased

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I AM ONE – Jeffrey Combs – CUE – Community United Effort

ncmissingpersons.org

<<Jeffery Combs has been missing since October 23, 2008. His mother returned home from work to discover a note written by Jeffery saying, “my scooter was stolen” and he was going to the bridge on Suncrest Orchard Road to look for it, and to come look for him if he was not back by dark.

Officers searched the area of the bridge on Suncrest Orchard Road and located the stolen scooter along with clothing belonging to Mr. Combs. Residents in the neighborhood confirmed seeing Jeffery in the area but his whereabouts are still unknown.

Due to previous injuries and a stroke both of his arms and hands are crippled and his left arm is paralyzed. Jeffrey also has gaps in teeth that would identify him.>>

 

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Jeffrey Lynn Combs – The Charley Project

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Combs, circa 2008

• Missing Since 10/23/2008
• Missing From North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Male
• Race White
• Date of Birth 05/20/1967 (56)
• Age 41 years old
• Height and Weight 5'6 - 5'9, 180 - 190 pounds
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• Medical Conditions Combs suffers from liver disease which is believed to be terminal. He had a stroke about four months before his disappearance; as a result he lost use of his left arm, and can use only three fingers on his right hand.
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• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Sandy brown hair, blue eyes. Combs's nickname is Jeff. He has a tattoo of barbed wire around his arm. He had a mustache at the time of his disappearance. He may spell his middle name "Lane."

Details of Disappearance​

Combs was last seen in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina on October 23, 2008. He disappeared while his mother was at work.

Combs used a scooter to get around. He left a note at home, saying someone had broken into the house and stolen his scooter, two helmets and his cellular phone, and he was going to find the thief. He asked his mother to look for him if he wasn't home by dark.

Combs's mother came home from work at 11:30 a.m. and found the note. She spent the next day and night looking for him.

At some point while she was out of the house, Combs apparently came home and changed clothes, taking a camouflage-print jacket when he left. His mother came home and found his wet, dirty clothes on the floor and pork chops cooking on the stove. She never saw or heard from her son again.

Combs had a troubled past. He dropped out of school in the ninth grade. In 1998, his father shot him in the neck during an argument. His father was allegedly an abusive husband and parent. He was charged with attempted murder, but the case was dropped after Combs refused to cooperate with prosecutors.

His father died of a heart attack on Combs's birthday in 1999. After his body was discovered, Combs, who had been drinking heavily and taking pills, got into an argument with his uncle and wounded him with a sword. He also hurt his mother when she tried to intervene.

Combs pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon in connection with this incident and was sentenced to ten years in prison. After his release from prison in February 2008, he tried to adjust to civilian life and kept all his appointments with his parole officer. He moved in with his mother in June, after he suffered a stroke. He disappeared four months later.

A few days before his disappearance, Combs had invited two homeless individuals, a man and a woman, to his home. His mother kicked them out after she caught the man urinating off her front porch.

The homeless people lived in a tent near the Reddies River, and after his disappearance, Combs's mother confronted them. They told her they saw him get into a car with two women.

Later that week, the police found Combs's scooter, one of the helmets and his jacket off Suncrest Orchard Road beside the Reddies River, near the tents. The scooter had missing parts. Authorities stated they had interviewed the residents of the homeless camp and considered them possible witnesses, but none of them have named as suspects in his disappearance.

Combs's mother believes he is deceased, and police consider his disappearance suspicious. His case remains unsolved.

Investigating Agency​

• Wilkes County Sheriff's Office 336-903-7600

Source Information​

• The Winston-Salem Journal
• The Wilkes County Record
• NamUs

Updated 2 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated August 30, 2010; middle name, picture and alternate height and weight added, details of disappearance updated.

 

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article about Jeff's mother

The Life of Lucy Combs: An Epilogue

thewilkesrecord.com

May 10, 2018

'I'm Still Looking, 'Til I Die': Wilkes Co. Mom Searches For Son Missing 10 Years

WILKES COUNTY, N.C. -- "People think you can just give it up and go on," Sigmon says. "But there's no giving up and no going on. If you don't know, you don't know."

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