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Summary based on the NamUs case record (MP28364) and 1 other source
Josiah Caskey was 31 years old when he was last known to be in Lexington, Kentucky, on August 4, 2014. The public missing-person record connected to his name is NamUs case MP28364, a national case entry for a missing person from Lexington. The available public information is sparse, and that sparseness is part of what makes his case so difficult: there is no detailed public timeline explaining where he was headed, who last saw him, or what may have happened after his last known contact. Public case summaries identify him as a White/Caucasian male, 6 feet tall, weighing about 170 pounds, with hair color listed as unknown.

The circumstances of Josiah’s disappearance have been described publicly as “unknown at this time,” leaving his family, investigators, and the wider community with few confirmed details to work from. What is known is that his case is tied to Fayette County and the city of Lexington, and that the date of last contact remains August 4, 2014. Uncovered’s case page, which states that its case information was retrieved from NamUs, repeats the same limited circumstances and lists his age at the time, NamUs number, race, gender, height, weight, and unknown hair color.

As time passed, Josiah’s name remained in public missing-person listings rather than fading entirely from view. SpotCrime area missing-person references have continued to show him as missing from Lexington, with the same core identifying information: missing age 31, estimated current age 42, last seen in Lexington on August 4, 2014, White/Caucasian, male, unknown hair and eye color, 6 feet tall, 170 pounds, and case number MP28364. Those repeated entries do not add new circumstances, but they show that his case has remained part of the public record and continues to be associated with the Lexington area.

The official NamUs entry is significant because NamUs serves as a national clearinghouse for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases in the United States, providing a centralized resource for law enforcement, medical examiners, coroners, investigators, and families. In Josiah’s case, the public record offers only the basic framework of a disappearance: a man in his early thirties, last known to be in Lexington, with no publicly detailed explanation for why contact ended or where the search may have led afterward.

Josiah Caskey’s case is therefore a story marked less by publicly known events than by the painful absence of them. The record begins with a confirmed last-contact date in Lexington on August 4, 2014, continues through a NamUs missing-person case that lists his basic physical description and unknown circumstances, and remains preserved in public missing-person databases and case pages. The overview of the case is that Josiah Caskey, a 31-year-old White/Caucasian man from the Lexington, Kentucky area, was last seen or last contacted on August 4, 2014; he was described as 6 feet tall and about 170 pounds, with hair and eye color not publicly confirmed, and the public circumstances of his disappearance remain unknown.

Last Seen: Aug 4, 2014

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Possible Unidentified Matches (1)

Unidentified remains cases whose details are consistent with this person, ranked by how closely they compare. Fields that are unknown in either case are left out of the score.

77%Possible
John Doe — Lexington, Kentucky
UP13107 • Found Oct 29, 2014
View case
Sex ✓Male
Age 100%Est. 26–41 vs 31
Race 100%White
Location 100%5 mi away, same county
TimingFound 3 months after last seen
Height 36%5'7" vs 6'0"

These comparisons are generated automatically from public NamUs case data and are not confirmed identifications. Only DNA, dental or fingerprint comparison by investigators can confirm an identity. If you believe two cases are connected, contact the agency handling the unidentified case.