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You know, he was a good all around guy. You know, just a middle class guy trying to make a living and you know enjoy life a little bit on the weekends.

The Saturday morning, the Russ County Sheriff's Department organized an area search centered on the cabin and we were down there and there were probably 40 people who were forced back and everything else around there.

And we were just getting around waiting while the deputies and everybody searching from the investigating agency or whatever was police department.

Basically, they're as good as hate. We think we know what happens. We can't prove anything. Obviously the chance of finding any physical evidence unless somebody stumbles on a body somewhere.

There will be no physical evidence. You know, at this stage, I would say they probably won't.

On the morning of February 15, 2012, 58-year-old Jimmy Tidwell left his place of employment after working the night shift.

Later, his boss called Jimmy to ask him if he wanted to come in for some overtime. But Jimmy's wife answered the phone and said that he was sleeping.

Several days later, his employer called the Russ County Sheriff's Office to ask them to do a welfare check on Jimmy. It was uncharacteristic of Jimmy to miss work without calling in.

When authorities began searching for Jimmy, they located his truck several miles from his home just outside of Mount Enterprise, Texas.

Jimmy's eyeglasses were in the truck, but his cell phone, wallet and keys all disappeared along with him.

In the eight years that have passed since Jimmy went missing, no trace of him has been found.

I'm Marissa, and from Wondery, this is Episode 240 of The Vanished, Jimmy Tidwell's story.

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One of the people that we spoke to for this story was Jimmy's sister Lynn.

In order to get an idea of what may have happened to him, we wanted to know more about who Jimmy was as a person. Lynn told us more.

We have totally opposite personalities as far as that goes. He was more foolishness and a sense that he or she loved you or didn't and there wasn't a whole lot of the twins.

And he wasn't a real people person that I mean he could be super funny and the toss of a coin he could be super serious.

He just had a totally different personality than I did. We stayed in touch by phone or I mean it's perfect Jimmy example if I'd call him and say how are you coming for Thanksgiving and he'd say no I think I'm just going to hang around the house.

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