AR AR - Casey Clark, 31, Fulton, 27 March 2012

Hempstead County Sheriff Department seeking missing person

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Hope, Ark. — Two Hempstead County men have seemingly disappeared from the face of the Earth.

Hempstead County Sheriff James Singleton said Tuesday that, in addition to the March disappearance of Casey Clark, 31, of Fulton, authorities are seeking information on the whereabouts of Joseph Christopher Cowart, 58, of Hope, who has been missing since May 15.

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Smith is the third Hempstead County resident to have simply disappeared in the past two years.
Joseph Christopher Cowart, 58, of 3096 Highway 174 South, and Casey Clark, 31, of Fulton, have been missing since 2012, both having simply disappeared from different locations.

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Hempstead County Sheriff James Singleton thought he would be solving a mystery when a forensic lab finally identified a skull found on a Red River sandbar more than two years ago...

They first thought it was the remains of Casey Clark, 31, a Fulton man who was reported missing March 27, 2012. Authorities found Clark's car at the Boll Weevil Liquor Store on the banks of the Red River in Fulton upstream from the skull's discovery...

Scientists there determined the skull was from a young male Caddo Indian and was about four centuries old. They notified the Hempstead County sheriff's office Thursday of their findings. The Caddo tribe populated southern Arkansas and northern Arkansas in the early 1600s, Singleton said.

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