38: He Got in the Car with Mystery Person & Vanished |The Disappearance of Harold Clifton Cooper III

On the warm Summer day of Sunday, August 19, 2001, twenty year old Harold Cooper III was in Bladensburg and at some point called his grandmother — who lived in Virginia — to let her know that he was going to visit her at her home. Harold never made it and seemingly vanished without a trace.

He was said to have been seen getting inside of a four door 1992 Chevrolet Caprice with an acquaintance.

This is where the case starts and ends, but it doesn’t have to.

With the case having such little details and hardly any coverage, I want to analyze the little details that we know, question everything, look at some possibilities, and close with my opinion.

This will probably be the most elaborate analysis done on Harold to date, but for some time now I’ve been wanting to cover it because he deserves answers. If we get no answers from this episode, the least he can get is renewed attention and to let his family know that we haven’t forgotten and we are still looking.

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