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Joseph Brandon Benton










Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021


Benton, approximately 2004




Date reported missing : 01/06/2004

Missing location (approx) :
Lufkin, Texas
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White


DOB : 01/22/1985 (36)
Age at the time of disappearance: 18 years old
Height / Weight : 5'4 - 5'6, 118 - 140 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A small gold hoop earring. Clothing unknown, but he usually wears a t-shirt, jeans and a baseball cap.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian male. Black hair, hazel eyes. Benton has a scar on the left side of his forehead and a horizontal scar under his left eye. He has a tattoo of a mushroom on his left calf, a tattoo of the name "Smokey Joe" on his left forearm, the words "Love" and "Hate" tattooed across his knuckles on both hands, and a tattoo of a cross between his right thumb and forefinger. Benton's left ear is pierced and he is missing several teeth. His nicknames are Joe and Smokey Joe.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Benton last contacted his family at approximately 5:00 p.m. on January 6, 2004 in Lufkin, Texas. He has never been heard from again. Benton's brown and tan 1987 Ford F-150 extended cab pickup truck was later found abandoned in a ditch behind a locket cattle gate on a dirt road in a rural area southeast of Angelina County on Parker Point Road near Zavalla, Texas, half an hour's drive from Lufkin. His case remains unsolved. Foul play is possible.


Other information and links : ncy

Tyler County Sheriff's Department
409-283-2172



September 2021 updates and sources

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Texas Department of Public Safety
Bring Them Home Now




October 12, 2004. December 28, 2017; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.