TN TN - David Duggar, 44, Pulaski, 15 March 1999

He’s been missing for 17 years, and on Tuesday, the Giles County Sheriff’s Department classified the case of David Gene Duggar as a homicide.

“We just kind of suspected foul play at the time. If it was foul play, we would like to get his remains so we could go and visit him,” Bobo Duggar told News 2.

“We want closure,” his sister Cindy Arnett added.

Gene’s father passed away in 2002. Sheriff Kyle Helton promised him he’d solve the mystery of his missing son.

“We are not giving up. We never will,” the sheriff told News 2.

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The Sheriff's Department has not stopped investigating the case in the seventeen years, but about a year ago, Sands and Giles County Sheriff's Department Investigator George Barturen began working the case together that's now an active homicide investigation. Sands said with new evidence, there is reason to believe Duggar never left Giles County.

Duggar disappeared without a trace March 15,1999. He was 44 years at the time. Sands said the story told was Duggar had left on a Greyhound bus.

Investigators say that in 17 years, there is not a single financial trace of Gene Duggar—not a Social Security hit, not a bank transaction, not a credit card.

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JusticeWillBeServed said:

David has been missing for over 17 years. A couple of days ago, police reclassified his case as a homicide.

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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: March 15, 1999 from Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee
Classification: Missing
Date Of Birth: N/A
Age: 44
Height: 5'8"-6'0"
Weight: 175-182 lbs
Hair Color: Brown/Gray
Eye Color: Brown
Race: White
Gender: Male

Details of Disappearance
David's father went to the Sheriff's Dept. and advised them that his son David Eugene Dugger had been missing since about late March or early April 1999. He told them he last spoke to his son on the phone on or around March 15, 1999.

Note: The recent stories spell his last name as "Duggar" while a few other sites have it as "Dugger".

After 17 years, missing Giles County man’s case classified as homicide



Missing Case Now a Homicide Investigation



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