MICHAEL DWAYNE WILKERSON - (MISSING ALERT)

MICHAEL DWAYNE WILKERSON




Michael Dwayne Wilkerson was last seen on Sept. 15, 2011 in the area of Burney Road and New Hope Church Road.

A wrecked truck had his cell phone in it but there was no one in or around the truck.

Morin learned about the wreck and the phone when she filed a missing person report on Sept. 24.

Morin has been through the motions of living ever since. Thanksgiving and Christmas were just days that went by. The hardest day was Michael’s 35th birthday on Dec. 1.

“I know if he could, Michael would call me. Maybe he had a head injury in that wreck. Maybe he wasn’t even in that truck,” Morin said. “I worry about so many things that could have happened. People do get amnesia. I know if he could, he would find a way to get in touch with me.”

Det. Ed Blair said, and Morin agreed, that the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office had done all they could do without a new lead.

“We would like to know what happened, too,” Blair said. “We encourage Mrs. Morin to keep talking about Michael, to stay on the Internet, put up posters, whatever she can think to do that might get someone to come forward with information.”

The pickup truck that hit a pole on Burney Road was totaled and had been reported stolen from a residence on U.S. 220 Business near Crestview Church Road. No one was in or around the truck and no trail from it when a highway patrol trooper responded about 5:15 a.m. The last call made on Michael’s phone had been made about 2:30 a.m., Morin said. A passerby had called in the wreck.

The truck was turned over to the owner, who sold it for salvage.

The sheriff’s office sent two search teams with dogs and scoured the area. Search planes flew over looking for images of remains.

Divers searched nearby Black Lake. They found no clues to Wilkerson’s whereabouts.

Det. Derrick Hill said the case is still open.




The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office would like to hear from anyone who has any information that might be helpful. Call (336) 318-6699 or make an anonymous call to Randolph County Crime Stoppers at (336) 672-7463.