New to NamUs: Jones Martin, missing since September 11th, 1987

By: Shane Lambert

Jones Martin has been missing since September 11th, 1987. However, his profile was only recently uploaded to NamUs (September 10th, 2017). Unfortunately few details seem to be available in his case. He would be 53 years old as September 28th, 2017.

Vital details:

• Black male
• Age last seen is 22 to 23 years old
• Height 70 to 72 inches (that's 5'10" to 6'0")
• Weight: 180 pounds

Disappearance details:

• Last seen in Moss Point, Mississippi on September 11th, 1987

Commentary:

• Moss Point is located in south-eastern Mississippi and not too far from the Alabama border near the Gulf of Mexico
• Jones Martin sounded like a weird ordering of the name, made me wonder if the first name and last name are reversed from a clerical error. NamUs lists his alias/nickname and middle name as Maurice.

• There's a very lengthy gap between the last-seen date and the profile-created date
• His age when he was last seen is very strange (ie. 22 to 23 years old); seems to me that if he went missing on September 11th, 1987 then people that knew him would know exactly what his age was on that date; either he has a cloudy birth date for some reason or the date he went missing is actually not clear and perhaps was in and around his birthday.
• Web searches for "Jones Martin" did not produce any hits. Even when you use quotes, Google thinks you are looking for Martin Jones, the NHL goaltender for the San Jose Sharks at time of writing.
• Very few details in this case were available to my online research. 
• This one promises to be tough for websleuthers due to the fact that he went missing in the time before online social networking. When I searched Google using a custom date range that focused on the years around the dawn of the Internet nothing came up affiliated with this case.