MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The search for an elderly man who’s been missing for more than a month now continues Monday night.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued a Silver Alert for missing 73-year-old man, Samuel Finnie.
“To know my dad is missing is just a lot,” his daughter Carla Jackson said.
Finnie has been described as a 5’10”, 170 lbs man with gray hair and brown eyes.
He was last seen on August 2 in the area of Westmore Cove.
Finnie has a medical condition that may impair his ability to return safely without assistance.
It’s been a month of worry, anxiety and hope for Carla Jackson as she hopes her father is found safely.
“Okay, a week I hadn’t spoken with my dad, I’m okay,” Jackson said. “But for my cousin to say I haven’t seen your dad? I’m like, ‘Well, what’s going on?’ But he didn’t explain any of that to me.”
Jackson told WREG that Finnie had just moved back to South Memphis after living in Atlanta for several years so he could live in the house her mother left to him.
Finnie was living with his adult nephew in the home on Westmore Cove and according to a Memphis City Watch, the two had an argument before Finnie disappeared.
One neighbor told WREG that Finnie came to her door late one night two weeks before he went missing.
“I walked outside into my carport and Mr. Finnie was sitting in the chair and he started to tell me that he needed to use the phone to call 911,” the neighbor said.
She said Finnie told her about alleged violence in the home and called the police.
WREG is not naming the nephew at this point because he has not been charged with anything in relation to Finnie’s disappearance.
“They did not lock up the nephew that night,” the neighbor said. “Mr. Finnie ended up back at the house that night, but he also told me while he was sitting here waiting for police that the night before the nephew had put him out and he slept on the porch.”
While WREG was in the neighborhood, Finnie’s nephew came home. He briefly spoke with a reporter but did not provide any information about his uncle.
So, hours after neighbors say police showed up to the home with K-9 units, Jackson is still no closer to answers.
“I just want to find him or know the truth,” Jackson said. “One of the two.”
Finnie has prostate cancer, is pre-diabetic, and is in need of medication.
If you have seen him or have any information about his whereabouts, you are asked to call the Memphis Police Department at 901-636-4479 or call the TBI at 1-800-TBI-Find.