AL AL - Donald Fortson, 52, & Eddie Hazelrig, 31, Cleveland, 3 Nov 1998

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Donald's Doe Network page:

http://doenetwork.org/cases/3266dmal.html

Donald's Charley Project page:

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/f/fortson_donald.html

Nickname: Don

Don's NamUs profile:

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/4485/85/

Dental: available will be entered later
DNA: initial inquiry underway
Fingerprints: available elsewhere

case report:
Donald Ray Fortson was last seen on Tuesday, November 3, 1998 in the Cleveland area of Blount County Alabama. There is a $50,000 reward offered by the family for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the disappearance of Donald Fortson and Eddie Hazelrig.

Eddie Hazelrig is Don's nephew. Both are missing. I will create a WS entry for Eddie and link back here.

Picture of Don from first link embedded in this post.

Come home soon.

ETA: Eddie Hazelrig's thread link:
AL AL- Huey Edward Hazelrig- Cleveland- 03 NOV 1998 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community
 

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Eddie's Doe Network page:

http://doenetwork.org/cases/3267dmal.html

(gives details about this case)

Eddie's Charley Project page:

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/hazelrig_huey.html

Eddie's NamUs profile:

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/4486/84/

Dental: NA
DNA: NA
Fingerprints: NA

(not available at the time of this post)

case report:
Huey Edward Hazelrig was last seen in the Cleveland area of Blount County, Alabama on Tuesday, November 3, 1998. There is a $50,000 REWARD offered by the family for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the disappearance of Donald Fortson and Eddie Hazelrig.

Eddie is missing along with his Uncle Donald Fortson

Donald's WS page here:
AL AL- Donald Ray Fortson- Cleveland- 03 NOV 1998 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

Please add any archived articles that are found. TIA

Picture of Eddie from first link embedded in this post. Doe Network.
 

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Sartain is the former ABI agent on the case. He says Eddie and Donald were last seen at their trailer around 3:30 in the afternoon. They had just finished a day of welding at a local farm. About four hours later, Eddie's grey Isuzu truck was discovered in the Altoona area.

"The truck was discovered almost on the roadway, burning or recently burned in the early evening hours and that was the first lead we had that something wasn't going on right," said Sartain.

<snip>

Huey Hazelrig says the last phone call his son Eddie made, was to a girl he was seeing. They only talked a minute, and he said he "just wanted to hear her voice one more time."

http://chriscrimeforum.freeforums.org/donald-fortson-and-eddie-hazelrig-t963.html
 
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still missing: http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/09/where_are_they_now_missing_peo.html#37
 
In March 2020 a skeleton was found inside a recently sold home in Morris, AL. (Sounds a bit like the place was a dump.)

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Estimated age: 40-60 (Donald: 52)
Race: White
Sex: Male
Height: 5'6" to 5'9" (Donald: 5'10")
Hair color: Brown (Donald: Brown)
Clothing: Maroon, short-sleeved shirt. Camouflage hat. High-top boots, tan canvas/brown leather. Canvas-denim boots.
Morris is about a half-hour drive to Cleveland, AL.

What doesn't make sense though, their car was found burnt out in Altoona, which is basically in the other direction.
 

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