Acworth Man Missing For Nearly a Decade

The Facebook page Our Silent Crisis-Our Missing Persons posts photos and information on missing persons throughout the country.

In its short description, the site's administrator writes: This page is in addition to my other pages and adding the years 2000 thru 2012 for Adult Cases except California and Maryland who have separate pages. Description For the Missing and their Families and this is for all the Adult Missing. I have pages for the years 1940-1999 and for Children and Teenagers.

The site is worth a look and prompts a variety of emotions. Among the many metro Atlanta and Georgia missing persons posted Tuesday afternoon was Stephen M. Lankester Cox, who is described as being missing from Acworth since Nov. 18, 2004.

Other information posted about Cox included:
 
•Date Of Birth: March 13, 1966
•Age: 38
•Height: 6'0" - 6'2"
•Weight: 170 - 185 lbs.
•Hair Color: Brown
•Eye Color: Blue
•Race: White
•Gender: Male

•Distinguishing Characteristics: Scar aprox. 6" long on left elbow, metal screws in elbow, tattoo of a "rose"on upper chest, tattoo of a "crown of thorns" around upper left arm, limps on right leg, pierced left ear, cap on front tooth, previously fractured left elbow, previously fractured knee cap.

•Clothing & Jewelry: Jeans, checked dress shirt over blue t-shirt, Harley Davdison boots, boxer underwear. Pinky ring with small tiger eye.

•AKA: Steve Cox

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the Cherokee Sheriff Department. Lt. Jamie Geaffala at (678) 493-4166 or Major Ron Hunton at (678) 493-4200.