Account
Aug 27, 2015
Jun 08, 2024
Hollis
Dykes
90
49
65 inches
165 lbs
195 lbs
White / Caucasian
Male
In the early summer of 1983, a 49-year-old U.S. Army veteran named Hollis Laverne Dykes vanished from Elk City, Oklahoma. He was a man with brown hair and blue eyes, standing at five feet five inches tall. A noticeable scar ran from under his arm to his collarbone area, a permanent reminder of his past. The last confirmed sighting of Hollis was on June 6, 1983, when a law enforcement officer in Beckham County issued him a ticket for an expired vehicle inspection sticker. After that interaction, Hollis Dykes was never officially seen or heard from again, leaving behind a life story that included military service, a career as a horse jockey in California, and multiple marriages. The circumstances leading up to Hollis's disappearance are unsettling and complex. In the year prior to his vanishing, he had become entangled in a legal battle with local law enforcement. Hollis had filed a lawsuit against the Beckham County Sheriff and a deputy, accusing them of improperly serving him with a divorce summons. This legal trouble was compounded by a charge of child stealing that he faced in late 1982, an incident that occurred while he was with his young son. He was seeking significant punitive damages from the county officials, a move that placed him in direct opposition to powerful figures in his community. Decades have passed since Hollis Dykes was last seen, and his case remains an open and troubling mystery. The sparse details surrounding the day he disappeared provide few clues for investigators to follow. The confluence of his personal legal battles, including a contentious divorce and a lawsuit against the sheriff's department, creates a disturbing backdrop to his vanishing. The official record simply states that he has not been seen since that June day in 1983. The Elk City Police Department continues to hold the case file, hoping that someone might come forward with the information needed to finally understand what happened to Hollis Laverne Dykes.
Jun 06, 1983
Elk City
Oklahoma
Beckham County
Unknown
87696
Elk City Police Department
Elk City
Oklahoma
Beckham County
73644
Kennie Shirey
Captain
422 East 3rd Street, Oklahoma
5802251212
Local
Law Enforcement
DA0745
Elk City Police Department
Brown
Blue
Blue
06/14/2026
