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Search underway for Lincoln teen
05/14/2008 13:15:18

Billy Ray Eskew was last seen Tuesday morning at a campsite near Sportsman's Park south of Lincoln.
   

     Logan County authorities have launched a ground and air search for a missing Lincoln man who was last seen yesterday morning. Nearly 100 searchers have been combing the area around Sportsman's Park south of Lincoln for 18-year-old Billy Ray Eskew.

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Logan County Emergency Management Director Dan Fulscher says Eskew is a quiet man who never went missing before, he seemed glad to have just finished school at Salt Creek Academy and was getting ready for a job interview. Eskew left his cell phone at home.

Foul play is not suspected. Eskew is white, 6-foot-1, 200 pounds with blondish brown sort hair, a goatee and blue eyes. He was wearing jeans and a red-hooded coat with white sleeves.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Logan County Sheriff's Office at (217) 732-4159.


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