Search for missing man continues, family recounts disappearance

UPDATE (6/28/24): Still Missing: Families speak out on search for loved ones

DECATUR COUNTY, Tenn. — 42-year-old Terry Wayne Jackson has been missing since March 27th.

We spoke with his family who told us that they just want to find him.

“That’s the day that I was told that he was last seen. I did not find out that he was missing until about a week and a half– two weeks ago,” said Samantha Higby, Jackson’s Sister.

Higby said that she found out from her aunt that her brother was missing.

She was also told that he dropped food off to his girlfriend while she was at work.

“She assumed that he had went back home and whenever she got back home, he was not there,” said Higby.

She said that’s when she came to town and started questioning people.

“I made time to come all the way from Texas to be here to try to search with everybody physically myself,” said Higby.

Higby stated that she, her husband and her mother began to search areas that her brother may have been.

She also followed every lead that she was given of his disappearance.

That’s when her mother-in-law, Misty Burrow, discovered Jackson’s car keys.

“I first took a picture of it on the ground where I seen it and then we picked it up with a Ziploc baggie and closed it up so it could retain any kind of evidence that may be on it and we also marked the location of where it was found at,” said Burrow.

The keys were found in a wooded area near Kelly Cemetery in Bath Springs.

Burrow said that they turned the keys in to the Parsons Police Department.

“He’s always had a smile, you know? And I just want to find him,” said Higby.

Jackson was last seen wearing a light blue hoodie, a blue t- shirt and blue jeans.

If you have any information regarding Jackson’s disappearance, contact Parsons Police Department at (731) 847-9999.

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