It’s been a year since 84-year-old Morris Griffith went missing, and his family is still holding on to a sliver of hope that he’ll be found.“It’s kind of torture to wonder every single day, ‘What has happened to him? Was there foul play involved? Is he sitting somewhere in another city, another state?’” said Victor Crusan, Griffith’s son-in-law.Griffith, who has dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, was last seen on June 6, 2022, when he took his daily walk near his home on Dry Grove Road in Terry.“We spent a couple months looking and searching the area,” Crusan said. “We had so many volunteers from surrounding areas — Terry, Byram, Jackson and Raymond. They all came together.”But after months of using every sort of effort possible to search the 2-mile radius surrounding Griffith’s home, they only came up with the fact that he was last seen about 500 yards away.“The one thought would be that he is still alive, that he’s probably somewhere in another city living his life,” Crusan said. “But somebody has to be taking care of him.”Crusan said the family knows there’s a very small chance of that being the case. “Because we have pamphlets out, notifications are out. People would’ve known,” he said. They are now thinking someone must have picked Griffith up.“With a bad person that might have picked him up, we can only imagine that they took the $26 that was in his wallet and something must have happened,” Crusan said. As Griffith’s family continues to search and hope for closure, they are asking people to continue looking for him. He was last seen wearing a blue shirt with blue jeans and loafers. As hunting season comes around again, the family asks residents to be on the lookout in and around Terry.
It’s been a year since 84-year-old Morris Griffith went missing, and his family is still holding on to a sliver of hope that he’ll be found.
“It’s kind of torture to wonder every single day, ‘What has happened to him? Was there foul play involved? Is he sitting somewhere in another city, another state?’” said Victor Crusan, Griffith’s son-in-law.
Griffith, who has dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, was last seen on June 6, 2022, when he took his daily walk near his home on Dry Grove Road in Terry.
“We spent a couple months looking and searching the area,” Crusan said. “We had so many volunteers from surrounding areas — Terry, Byram, Jackson and Raymond. They all came together.”
But after months of using every sort of effort possible to search the 2-mile radius surrounding Griffith’s home, they only came up with the fact that he was last seen about 500 yards away.
“The one thought would be that he is still alive, that he’s probably somewhere in another city living his life,” Crusan said. “But somebody has to be taking care of him.”
Crusan said the family knows there’s a very small chance of that being the case.
“Because we have pamphlets out, notifications are out. People would’ve known,” he said.
They are now thinking someone must have picked Griffith up.
“With a bad person that might have picked him up, we can only imagine that they took the $26 that was in his wallet and something must have happened,” Crusan said.
As Griffith’s family continues to search and hope for closure, they are asking people to continue looking for him. He was last seen wearing a blue shirt with blue jeans and loafers. As hunting season comes around again, the family asks residents to be on the lookout in and around Terry.