Hester Keith

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Hester Maynard Keith, Jr, property 47, vanished from Wake County, North Carolina connected February 18, 1988.

Hester, who often went by Maynard, was a spouse successful Rico Construction astatine the clip of his disappearance. He lived with his woman and 2 children astatine 4407 Parkwood Rd successful Garner, North Carolina. He has been described arsenic a quiescent man, who wasn’t the benignant to beryllium progressive successful confrontations. He suffered from a muscular degenerative disease, which made him incapable to locomotion much than astir 50 yards astatine a time, but helium seemed to unrecorded a beauteous mean life.

On the greeting of his disappearance, helium went to a operation trailer astatine West Oaks, disconnected of Johnson Pond Rd successful Southern Wake County. He arranged a gathering astatine 8:30am with a antheral named Larry W. Wilder astatine a store successful Corinth.

Shortly earlier 11:00am, Maynard’s caput called him connected his car phone, and fto him cognize that helium needed to spell to the slope to prime up immoderate operation indebtedness documents. Maynard assured her that helium would instrumentality attraction of it. Nobody saw oregon heard from him again.

In the contiguous aftermath of his disappearance, constabulary were capable to find that this past telephone was transmitted done a operation astatine the intersection of Lake Wheeler Road and Secondary Road 1010. Investigators stated that the telephone could person been anyplace wrong 15 miles of the tower.

Five days aft helium disappeared, a car that had been spotted by a Chatham County lawman connected February 20 but not checked until it had been sitting a fewer days, was unidentified arsenic Maynard’s. It was located successful a wooded country known arsenic Moncure, on an abandoned railroad way bed. His wallet, containing his recognition cards, was successful the vehicle, on with his weapon and motortruck keys. The weapon had not been fired. All that appeared to beryllium missing, different than Maynard himself, was his briefcase.

Maynard’s loved ones were adamant that He ne'er would person driven to that country himself due to the fact that his carnal disablement would person prevented him from navigating the wooded terrain connected foot.

Police became funny successful Larry W. Wilder, the past idiosyncratic known to person seen Maynard alive. They learned that Larry W. Wilder was a concern subordinate of Maynard’s father, who had died of a bosom onslaught astir six weeks earlier.

Hester Maynard Keith, Sr was successful the timber industry, and Larry Wilder was charged with locating disposable timber that Maynard Sr. could chopped down and merchantability for a profit. Shortly earlier Maynard Sr died, helium had fixed Larry Wilder implicit $100,000 to acquisition timber, and had taken retired concern loans to bash so. However, since Maynard Sr died, the funds were owed backmost to the estate, due to the fact that the property could not beryllium settled until the loans were repaid. This is reportedly wherefore Maynard was gathering with Wilder connected the greeting of February 18.

Though the gathering was astatine 8:30am, and Maynard’s caput spoke with him astir 11:00am, presumably good aft the meeting, investigators were funny successful speaking to Larry Wilder, arsenic they believed the wealth owed backmost to Maynard could beryllium a imaginable motive.

Authorities spoke with Larry Wilder connected February 20, and helium confirmed that the gathering did instrumentality spot astatine 8:30am, and that it had lone lasted astir 10 minutes. Larry said that helium past headed location and had nary thought wherever Maynard went.

When constabulary attempted to talk with Larry again a fewer days later, they learned that helium had abruptly gone to Georgia. Larry sent a missive to police, stating that helium was not liable for Maynard’s disappearance and that helium did not beryllium thing to the estate. He refused to explicate wherefore helium had gone to Georgia, but said it had thing to bash with Maynard.

Maynard reportedly had planned to be a vessel amusement aft moving his errands connected the time helium vanished, but ne'er made it.

I haven’t seen immoderate denotation of whether his motortruck was checked for fingerprints, oregon the tallness adjustments of seats and mirrors. That mightiness assistance find whether oregon not Maynard drove the motortruck to the wooded country himself.

His lad passed distant successful 2022, but his erstwhile woman and girl are inactive alive. Larry Wilder died successful 2019, and the comments near connected his obituary suggest that helium was a fantastic person. I’m not truly reasoning helium was progressive anyway, owed to the information that Maynard spoke to his caput astir 2 hours aft his gathering with Larry.