I hope this is OK to post... I have gone back through thread No. 1, and tried to create a timeline from the conversations our members had with the family, and from various news articles and personal accounts. I know it isn't perfect, but it is interesting. I DO believe Johnny was lost and having so much trouble communicating, that he was just ambling around for the first few days. His family probably came close to catching up with him a few times. Anyways - here is what I have put together. I have tried to save the sources for most of this in another file, and I have listed some of the links where the information came from. Everyone here has done such a wonderful job, this information just seems to valuable to not organize and use as we go forward.
Timeline from Websleuths postings and news articles:
1. 8/2/2012 – Family Checked into the Sea Crest Resort: 803 South Ocean Boulevard, Myrtle Beach, SC.
2. 8/3/2012: 2:30 – 3:30 PM - Johnny went for a walk to the Family Kingdom Amusement Park, Myrtle Beach. (About two blocks form the Sea Crest Resort where he was staying).
3. 8/3/2012: 4:30 PM – 8/4/2012: 5:30 AM – Family went to dinner at a local restaurant. When they returned to Sea Crest, Johnny wasn’t there, so they went driving towards the Family Kingdom Amusement Park and drove all around the area until 5:30 AM the next morning. Stopped two MB Police Officers while driving around and gave them the description of Johnny.
4. 8/3/12: 5:30 PM – A hotel worker relates that she saw Johnny across the street, but that she didn’t know who he was, or that he was missing. He told the hotel worker that he was missing his family and he went off in the opposite direction of the amusement park
5. 8/3/12: 7:00 PM – Johnny is seen in the Waffle House near the Whispering Surf Motel at 2608 South Ocean Boulevard, Myrtle Beach, SC. Johnny asked a waitress named Angie and her husband for a ride. A man named “Roger” who lived at the Whispering Surf Motel ‘offered to take Johnny with him’, and they left walking behind the Waffle House (per Angie). The manager at the Whispering Surf also remembers seeing Johnny with Roger. Roger is a known drug dealer.
6. 8/3/2012: Between 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM, Johnny got in a taxi, but the female driver couldn’t understand him. She took him towards Georgetown, and let him out when she found out he had no money, and she couldn’t understand what he was saying. She did not call the cops on him.
7. 8/3/2012: 10:00 PM - Police in Surfside stop Johnny off the bypass near Georgetown because he was walking alone down the road. They discovered the name of the SeaCrest hotel and called the hotel, but Johnny wasn’t reported as missing yet. Georgetown LE dropped him back off in Surfside.
8. 8/3/12: ??? PM – Johnny called home to Cartersville from a Chic-Fil-A, Arby’s and from a couple of cell numbers. This was discovered by the grandkids when they got home on Sunday, 8/5/2012.
9. 8/4/2012: Family speaks with a hotel worker who told the searching family that she had seen Johnny who had been across the street around 5:30 PM on Friday 8/3/12. She did not know who he was or that he was missing at that time. Johnny told the hotel worker that he was missing his family and he went off in the opposite direction of the amusement park. The worker also said she had seen him on her way into work that morning as he was sitting on the curb by a bank. Thread #1, Page 10 – Post No. 241 – by Steely Dan, 8/25/12 @ 02:36 PM
10. 8/4/2012: 9:00 AM – Johnny calls his home in Cartersville from a Beach Store in Myrtle Beach.
11. 8/4/2012: - Starting at 3:30 PM, the family searches business in areas he had been sighted.
12. 8/4/2012: “Angie”, the waitress at the Waffle House who saw Johnny when he asked her and her husband for a ride, quits her job and disappears.
13. 8/4/2012: 1:00 – 2:00 pm - Bar-B-Que House – 1205 Hwy 17 N Surfside Beach, SC 29575 - Johnny was asking for help, but they couldn’t understand him, so he left. Also information that they fed Johnny around 12:30 AM on this same day. FAMILY HAD JUST MISSED HIM BY ABOUT 3 HOURS.
14. 8/5/12: Grandchildren return home to Cartersville and discover that Johnny had called home to Cartersville from a Chic-Fil-A, Arby’s and from a couple of cell numbers.
15. 8/5/2012: Seen near an ice cream shop with a white female per Captain David Knipes, spokesman for the Myrtle Beach Police Department. This was in the area of 21st Avenue South. (Per link and post by MissJames – Thread 1, Page 4: Post #96, 8/22/2012 08:00 PM)
16. 8/6/2012: Julie Adams, the sister had returned to Cartersville, and she contacted the Myrtle Beach police with the phone numbers he had called from. They tracked them to a beach store he had called form on Saturday the 4th about 9 AM.
17. 8/6/12: The family who had remained in Myrtle Beach went to the Beach Store where Johnny had called home to Cartersville, and ID’d him when they saw the surveillance video.
18. 8/7/2012 – 8/8/2012: Surfside Beach Resort - 15 South Ocean Boulevard Surfside Beach, SC 29575 Possibly sighted by BellyUp – WS’s Member: Post No. 81, Thread 1; Page 4.
19. 8/8/12 - ??? Bar and grill across street from Surfside Beach Resort – This is close to the Surfside Pier - Possibly sighted by BellyUp – WS’s Member: Post No. 81, Thread 1; Page 4.
20. 8/13/2012: Sighting at McDonald’s in Surfside. A woman pulled up to the drivethru window and there was a man standing there at the ordering board, and he made her nervous, so she drove around him. After getting home, she saw the news and recognized him from a story she saw on the news. She immediately called the Surfside PD and they told her to call Horry County because it wasn’t their jurisdiction.  She called Horry County, but they told her to call Surfside. She called the news and left a message, and the next morning she called Julie and was upset because she couldn’t have done more.
21. 8/3/2012 – 8/19/12: A Team of 8 family members were helping LE look for Johnny in Myrtle Beach.
http://www.daily-tribune.com/view/f...king-for-missing-man?instance=latest_articles
The family had to go back home on 8/19/12 per post from MissJames who spoke with the family. Thread 1, Page 1; Post #10, 8/20/2012 09:34 AM
22. 8/24/2012: Hudson’s Flea Market: 1040 U.S. 17 Business, Surfside Beach, SC (Source????)
23. Denny’s : ???? - Which One? There are several:
a. 1200 U.S. 17 Business, Surfside Beach, SC (closest to Surfside Resort)
b. Loyola Dr, Myrtle Beach, SC
c. 800 South Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach, SC
24. Old Time Pottery: 1870 SOUTH Kings Highway, Surfside Beach, SC 29575, United States, (behind MacDonalds) on highway 17 south, past Hwy. 544, on 2nd red light on right, behind macdonalds