Right: Age-progressed by NCMEC to 62 years
Right: Age-progressed by NCMEC to 62 years
Name: Jerry Lee Armstrong
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: December 23, 1977
Location Last Seen: Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi
Date of Birth: August 1, 1960
Age: 17 years old
Race: Black
Gender: Male
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 145 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Scar over left eye
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available
Clothing: Dark green suit with a yellow shirt; green tie; black stacks which were a platform type of shoe
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
At approximately 2300 hours on December 23, 1977, high school senior Jerry Lee Armstrong was last seen by his girlfriend when he dropped her off at her home after a school dance. Jerry was a quarterback on the Hernando High School football team. He was an ordinary teenager who had no enemies and no reason for anyone to want to hurt him.
Jerry was driving his brother's 1973 white Pontiac Lemans (VIN# 2D37R3A251268), when he disappeared. The vehicle has never been recovered. His family believes that he may have been mistaken for his older brother, James, who owned the car and was dating a white girl at the time and his disappearance may have been racially motivated. Foul play is suspected.
Agency Name: Desoto County Sheriff's Department
Agency Contact Person: Louie Hutchins, Detective
Agency Phone Number: (662) 469-8027
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 860403Z
NamUs Case Number: 10070
NCIC Case Number: Unknown
NamUs
NCMEC
DeSoto Times-Tribune - Apr. 24, 2007
Added: 11/10/2009; Last Updated: 05/05/2024 - By: kc
Questions or comments? Please contact appropriate member of the Area Team
** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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