Husband Calls Wife to Say He’s Lost in the Woods, Hasn’t Been Seen Since

A 64-year-old Georgia man has been missing for more than a year and a half — and his loved ones are clinging to hope for closure.

Harold Eugene Clark Sr. was last seen on Dec. 21, 2023, according to the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office — and since then, although his vehicle, a black 2007 Toyota Camry, has been found, there’s been no sign of him.

“Every day it hurts more and more,” Clark’s daughter Shawndolyn told ABC News affiliate WJCL in an interview published earlier this month.

In May 2024, a few months after he disappeared, his wife Sharon told NBC News affiliate WSAV that the day he vanished started out unremarkably.

“I leaned over, kissed him on his forehead and he had a smile on his face,” she recalled. “I told him we’ll talk later.”

That day, he went out to spend time with friends, but he never made it back home, the station reported.

“He called me at 8:30 that night and told me, ‘I am on my way home. Have you finished cooking?’ ” Sharon told WSAV.

She spoke to him for the last time the following day when he called to say he’d gotten lost in the woods, according to WJCL.

“He was lost,” Sharon told WSAV. “He says he remembers calling me, telling me he was on his way home and he said, ‘I don’t know how I got here’. He said, ‘I don’t even know where I am at.’ ”

She told the station she’d tried to get him to call 911 and later dialed for help herself, but says officials never got a call from him.

In Oct. 2024, about 10 months after her husband went missing, a hunter found Clark’s vehicle in the woods of McIntosh County, less than an hour away from their home, according to WJCL.

But, she says, there hasn’t been an update in the case since — and she doesn’t believe officials have done enough. “I really don’t think we got treated fairly,” Sharon said.

When reached for comment by PEOPLE, a spokesperson for the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office said they do not have any updates about Clark and his case has since been turned over to the McIntosh County Sheriff’s Office.

“The Liberty County Sheriff’s Office completed the missing person report because Mr. Clark lived within the county. Mr. Clark’s vehicle was located several months later at a wildlife management area in McIntosh County,” the spokesperson tells PEOPLE. “The last known cellphone tower information for Mr. Clark’s cellphone was also in the WMA area in McIntosh.” 

The McIntosh County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to a request from PEOPLE for information about the status of the investigation into Clark’s disappearance.

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Although so much time has passed, Clark’s family is continuing to urge anybody with information to come forward.

“You can be anonymous” Sharon told WJCL. “Just tell the people what you heard, what you may know.”