TX TX - Loy Cosby, 87, Sweetwater, 2 June 1998

Details of Disappearance
Cosby was last seen at approximately 6:00 AM on June 2, 1998 in Sweetwater, Texas. He walked away from his lakeside cabin while his family members were asleep. Witnesses told authorities that he was walking along a road leading away from Sweetwater on the morning of his disappearance. An extensive search produced no clues as to his whereabouts. He often spoke of traveling to California.


Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Nolan County Sheriff's Office
(915) 235-5471
OR
Texas Department Of Public Safety
(800) 346-3243
Source Information
Texas Department of Public Safety
National Center for Missing Adults

http://www.nampn.org/cases/cosby_loy.html

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/cosby_loy.html

https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/925

Colorado City teenager Hailey Dunn has been missing since Dec. 27 – but she is not the only person still missing in the Big Country.

Another Big Country resident, 87-year-old Loy Cosby, has been missing for almost 13 years.

Early on the morning of June 2, 1998, Nolan County authorities were called out to Lake Sweetwater for the report of missing Cosby.

His wife got up around 6 a.m. that day to find he had left the house. Cosby suffered from dementia. He was last seen just north of the lake dam and recreational area.

Dozens of volunteers came out to look for Cosby, handing out flyers and helping anyway possible. Hundreds of tips were called in.

Nolan County Sheriff David Warren was chief deputy in 1998 and worked the Cosby case.

"It's just so disturbing to know that somebody may have gotten into a car and made it halfway across the country and something happened to him or something. We just don't know," Warren said.

Warren said he's never forgotten the Cosby case. Nolan County sent Cosby's DNA to the Texas Department of Public Safety's Missing Persons Database. In 2005 they resubmitted material as the system was updated. Still, no matches.

http://www.ktxs.com/news/26857240/detail.html

According to this genealogy site, Loy's relatives indicate he died on 4/17/07 at age 96:

Loy Cosby + Mattie Marie Alston - Our Family Tree

Bumping for Loy - it's now been 24 years.