Travis Roberson

Travis DeWayne Roberson was born on September 26, 1982.

He grew up in Gentry, Arkansas, with mom Lana and several sisters, including Sonia and Keisha.

Travis graduated from Gentry High School in 2001.

After high school, he moved to Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and worked at Hardee's.

When he disappeared in 2006 at age 23, he was still living in Salem Springs and had developed a drug habit, fallen in with some dangerous people, and was diagnosed with epilepsy.

On February 28, 2006, Travis was on Dixon Street in downtown Fayetteville with friends celebrating Mardi Gras and socializing.

Two Hispanic men approached him at a bar, and they had a conversation about an unknown topic.

Then, Travis told his friends he felt sick, so he was going to leave the bar and go back to the car to rest and wait for his friends, who assumed he was suffering from complications from his epilepsy.

Witnesses reported seeing Travis walking up a hill or in a parking lot, according to Asylum Springs Deputy Chief Derek Spicer, talking to nwahomepage.com. Quote, It's just been story after story after story after story, and they don't all match, Spicer said.

When Travis's friends got to the car, he wasn't there and he has never been seen again.

When Travis went missing and didn't return after several days, his family became concerned.

According to his sisters, Travis typically called his mom every night, but starting on February 28th, those calls stopped.

On March 3rd, Travis' sister Keisha filed a report with the Asylum Springs Police Department because Travis lived in that town.

She assumed the police would work the case.

But the Asylum Springs Department says they transferred the case to the Fayetteville PD, where Travis vanished from, on March 8th.

The Fayetteville police claim to have no record of that transfer.

Then, Travis's mother, Lana, filed a missing persons report with the Fayetteville police, but they assumed the Siloam Springs police were investigating Travis's disappearance.

So, no agency really worked the case.

According to nwahomepage.com, Fayetteville Sergeant Jesse Vermillion stated the department assigned the case to a detective in 2006, with follow-ups recorded through 2007.

Additional activity occurred on the case in 2011.

But if any progress was made, the family knows nothing about it.

Finally, in 2012, six years after Travis went missing, Siloam Springs investigators met with Sonia and Keisha and the case was reassigned.

In 2014, Fayetteville closed its end of the case and transferred everything to Siloam Springs.

They remain the lead agency today.

Deputy Chief Derek Spicer told nwahomepage.com, "...we thought Fayetteville was investigating it.