Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 12/14/1981
- Missing From:
- Missing From Marion, Kentucky
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Male
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 03/20/1950 (74)
- Age:
- Age 31 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’11 – 6’1, 160 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description Size 32×34 or 33×34 blue jeans, size 9 or 10 black leather steel-toed lace-up boots with no hooks, and white cotton socks with green and red tops.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes. Tidwell has scars on his right knee and right arm, a surgical scar on his abdomen at the front, and a scar from a stab wound on the upper left side of his abdomen. His nose has been broken several times and he has a tattoo saying “13 1/2 / 12 jury” on his left upper arm. His nickname is Eddy.
- Details of Disappearance:
- On December 14, 1981, Tidwell disappeared. He left his home in Marion, Kentucky, saying he was going to Sturgis, Kentucky, to meet someone about a job. He might have planned to buy alcohol and was possibly drunk when he left.
He was driving a beat-up yellow 1974 Chevrolet Bel Air. The car had a cracked windshield (on the right), rust on the front, and Kentucky license plate AKV 215.
Tidwell used to work on riverboats but was unemployed when he vanished. He’d applied for unemployment. The person he was supposed to meet might have been a supervisor from a river company in southern Illinois, but no one knows for sure.
Tidwell was a good man with no problems, leaving behind his wife and two little girls. He was eventually declared dead, but what happened to him remains a mystery.
- Agency:
- Kentucky State Police 270-676-3313
- Source Links:
This person was missing Missing Since 12/14/1981