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Bill Shipley disappeared last summer after making a large withdrawal from an ATM.
One year later, his parents are offering a $4,000 reward for information about his whereabouts.
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Anyone with information can call the McClain County sheriff's office at (405) 527-2141.
“It's still an active case,” said McClain County sheriff's Detective David Tompkins. “We have followed many leads but they are dead-end leads.”
Tompkins said he continues to search car lots and scrap yards for Shipley's missing truck, a 2002 Chevy S-14 crew cab four-wheel drive that had a tag number Oklahoma 327FAJ. He is also searching for property that would have been in the truck.
“It's kind of disappointing we have not come up with him, his vehicle or the property. So far we have come up with nothing,” he said.
On July 19, 2011, Shipley withdrew between $3,000 and $4,000 from an ATM in Goldsby before leaving to go to Arkansas for a painting job, and then to other jobs in Missouri and Kansas.
He never made it to any of the jobs.
William K. Shipley, 68, of Oklahoma City, said his son took out the money to buy paint.
He thinks his son fell victim to someone who knew he had a large amount of cash with him.
Shipley, who was 47 when he disappeared, was not reported missing until Aug. 20 because family members thought he was working out of state.
“It's really frustrating,” William Shipley said. “We just haven't had the right person to come forth. There are probably two to three people involved in this.”
Surveillance video and a composite sketch of a person of interest have been released.
Law officers say the man used Shipley's credit cards Aug. 12 at Murphy USA gas station and at the Saltgrass Steak House, both on N Interstate Drive in Norman, and Aug. 13 at a Home Depot on Shields Boulevard in Oklahoma City.
Tompkins said, “I would like to talk to him if I could get him identified.”
The man is white, about 50 years old, weighs about 250 pounds and stands about 6 feet 2 inches. He has light-colored eyes, light brown, short hair and a medium complexion.
At Shipley's mobile home park in Goldsby, investigators found the doors open and the shed unlocked.
One of Shipley's pickups, a red 1988 Jeep Comanche, was found Aug. 20 at an apartment complex parking lot near SW 89 and S Western Avenue in south Oklahoma City.
Missing from the pickup were two airless paint sprayers, a generator and three ladders.
“I still check pawnshops every month to see if they come up,” Tompkins said.
Shipley is described as white, 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing between 175 and 200 pounds.
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