Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 06/02/1998
- Missing From:
- Missing From Sweetwater, Texas
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Male
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 04/09/1911 (113)
- Age:
- Age 87 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’8 – 5’9, 140 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A white t-shirt underneath a long-sleeved, light-colored button-down dress shirt with a small print, dark-colored khaki pants and black leather lace-up shoes.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Gray hair, blue eyes. Cosby has surgical scars on his abdomen and on his groin, from operations on a hernia and a perforated ulcer. He wears a full set of dentures. His hair is thinning and he has age spots on his face.
- Details of Disappearance:
- One morning in June 1998, Cosby’s wife woke up to find him gone from their Texas cabin. The door was open, and witnesses saw him walking near a highway that morning. He’s never been seen or heard from since.
Police looked everywhere but found nothing. Cosby used to work at a shipyard in California before moving back to Texas. His family even checked around his old workplace, but the shipyard is closed now.
Investigators think he might have gotten a ride from someone who didn’t know he was missing, maybe heading towards California. He had a bit of gout in his foot the day before, but it didn’t stop him from walking. Cosby was independent but had dementia after a stroke in 1997.
Sadly, all his close family in Texas have since died or moved away, and the mystery of what happened to him remains unsolved.
- Agency:
- Nolan County Sheriff’s Office 915-235-5471
- Source Links:
This person was missing Missing Since 06/02/1998