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This person was missing Missing Since 09/17/2016

Missing Since:

Missing Since 09/17/2016

Missing From:

Missing From Florence, Alabama

Classification:

Classification Endangered Missing

Gender:

Male

Race:

Race White

Date of Birth:

Age:

Age 51 years old

Height and Weight:

Height and Weight 6’2, 240 pounds

Clothing/Jewelry Description:

Clothing/Jewelry Description A green long-sleeved Wrangler shirt, blue Wrangler jeans and brown cowboy boots.

Distinguishing Characteristics:

Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Gray hair, blue eyes. Childers’s nickname is Shawn. He has fused cervical vertebrae and he walks with a limp due to neck and back injuries. He has scars from prior surgeries, including an ostomy scar and a scar down the back of his neck going down to his back.

Details of Disappearance:

Childers vanished from his home in Florence, Alabama on September 17, 2016. His roommate said Childers left between 9 am and 12 pm, crying and saying goodbye. He’s never been seen or heard from since.

Things are suspicious:

* **The Roommate:** His roommate gave conflicting stories about that day. A neighbor saw Childers with the roommate *after* the roommate said he left. They had fought in the past. While the roommate hasn’t been charged, he’s a person of interest.
* **His Medication:** Some of Childers’s medicine was found later, a distance from his home.
* **Property Dispute:** Childers was involved in a nasty fight over the house he lived in. The new owner, Leroy Darby, repeatedly tried to force him out, even cutting off the power and dumping his belongings. A court hearing about who owned the house was scheduled, but Childers disappeared before it.

Police think Childers is likely dead, as there’s been no activity on his bank accounts or social security number since he disappeared. The case is still unsolved, and it’s unclear if the property dispute is connected to his disappearance.

Agency:

Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Department 256-760-5757

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