James Cole Jackson, a 58-year-old White/Caucasian male who also went by the nickname Jamie, was last seen in Mobile, Alabama, on July 5, 2023. His case is listed in NamUs as Missing Person case MP107515, with the date of last contact recorded as July 5, 2023, and the location connected to Mobile, in Mobile County. At the time he disappeared, James was described as 6 feet 1 inch tall and about 160 pounds, with gray or partially gray hair and hazel eyes.
The available case information portrays him not as a distant statistic, but as a man with familiar places, routines, and people who may have crossed paths with him in ordinary moments around the city.
According to the public case details, James was homeless and was known to visit Rehoboth Missionary Baptist Church. He was also known to wash cars around the Five Points area, including near Springhill Avenue and Ann Street. These details matter because they sketch the daily geography of his life before he was reported missing: church grounds, street corners, passing traffic, and the small exchanges that can become a person’s community when they are living without stable housing. For someone in James’s circumstances, a routine place or a familiar face may have been one of the most important threads investigators and loved ones could follow after contact with him was lost.
James had several identifying features that could help someone recognize him. He had gray or partially gray hair, hazel eyes, and multiple tattoos across his body, including a teardrop tattoo under his right eye. His height and slender build, along with those tattoos, are significant identifying details in the case record. No clothing description or transportation information was listed in the provided public case data, which leaves the picture of his final known movements incomplete. The absence of those details also shows how difficult missing-person investigations can be, especially when the missing person may not have had a fixed residence, a predictable schedule, or immediate access to people who could quickly report every change in routine.
The Mobile Police Department is listed as the investigating agency, and the agency case number is M223-08-02642. The case information indicates that the report was associated with Mobile Police in August 2023, after James’s last known contact in early July. NamUs, the national missing-persons database maintained as a centralized resource for cases across the United States, lists James’s case as a published missing-person record and describes NamUs as a system that helps investigators, families, and agencies share and compare case information in long-term missing-person and unidentified-person cases.
There is no listed case resolution status of Alive or Deceased in the provided case data, and the available public information does not establish that James has been found. The known story is therefore painfully limited: James Cole Jackson, known to some as Jamie, was a 58-year-old man last seen in Mobile, Alabama, on July 5, 2023; he was homeless, was known to visit Rehoboth Missionary Baptist Church, and was known to wash cars around Five Points, Springhill Avenue, and Ann Street; he had gray or partially gray hair, hazel eyes, a slim build, and tattoos that could help identify him. The heart of the case remains the same from start to finish: a man with recognizable routines in Mobile disappeared from the places where he was known, and the available record leaves his whereabouts unresolved.Last Seen: Jul 5, 2023
