TN TN - Cody Matney, 24, Bristol, 28 April 2002

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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: April 28, 2002 from Bristol, Tennessee
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: December 29, 1977
Age: 24 years old
Height and Weight: 5'8, 170 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes. Matney normally shaved his head at the time of his April 2002 disappearance. He has a tattoo of The Incredible Hulk on his upper right arm and a tattoo of Batman and Gotham City on his upper left arm.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A navy blue long-sleeved shirt, jeans, a blue University Of Florida Gators hat imprinted with the letter "F" and a gold rope chain.

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Details of Disappearance
Matney was last seen in Bristol, Tennessee on April 28, 2002. He was outside Confetti's Sports Bar in the 3200 block of West State Street. The establishment is off of Exit 74-B along Interstate 81. Witnesses told authorities that Matney made a call from the bar's pay phone, then sat inside his truck in the parking lot. He has never been heard from again.
Matney's vehicle was discovered abandoned in the bar's parking lot five days afterwards. His checkbook was inside his truck, but there was no other evidence at the scene. There has not been any activity on Matney's bank account since April 2002. Authorities believe that Matney may have departed from the bar with an acquaintance. His disappearance remains unsolved.

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Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Bristol Police Department
423-764-TIPS

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Source Information
The National Center for Missing Adults
The Bristol Herald Courier


http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/matney_cody.html
 
Cody Scott Matney
Gone, April 28, 2002​

"He didn’t just vanish into thin air."​

More than five years after her younger brother, Cody, went missing, Tracie Farmer falls back on this basic premise, the only thing of which she feels certain: A 5-foot-9, 170-pound weightlifter is no butterfly in the wind.​

Innumerable times she’s parsed through the facts of the night he went missing.​

There was the date with a girl in Bristol on a Saturday night; the bouncer at a bar who remembered the then 24-year-old’s "baby face;" the worker who placed him at a different bar later on, making calls on a pay phone.​

There were the eight phone calls Matney made with a calling card, most of them lost to investigators, and the grainy footage of him in his truck, talking to an unidentified person in another truck, in the predawn hours of April 28, 2002.​

Finally, there was Matney’s 1991 Ford Ranger parked outside the now-defunct bar Confetti’s, facing U.S. Highway 11W.​

Fade out.​

 

Victim Information​

CODY SCOTT MATNEY​

Cody Scott Matney

Gender:MaleHeight:5'8"Hair Color:BrownAge:25Race:WhiteWeight:170Eye Color:Brown

Case Details​

VIRGINIA STATE POLICE – DIVISION FOUR – CASE: 12-19445​

ABOUT THE CASE:​

Matney was last seen in Bristol, Tennessee on April 28, 2002. He was outside Confetti's Sports Bar in the 3200 block of West State Street. The establishment is off of Exit 74-B along Interstate 81. Witnesses told authorities that Matney made a call from the bar's pay phone, then sat inside his 1991 Ford Ranger truck in the parking lot, talking to an unidentified person in another truck. He has never been heard from again. Matney's truck was discovered abandoned in the bar's parking lot five days after his disappearance. His checkbook was sitting on the dash, but there was no other evidence at the scene. There has not been any activity on Matney's bank account since April 2002. He is known to have made eight telephone calls on his calling card around the time of his disappearance, but most of the numbers he called have been lost. Authorities believe that Matney may have departed from the bar with an acquaintance and may have been taken to Buchanan County, Virginia. His disappearance remains unsolved. NAMUS # MP155
 

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