Roger Joseph Young, a 55-year-old White/Caucasian male, was last seen on April 30, 2025, in Richmond Hill, Georgia, in Bryan County. His case is listed in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System as NamUs missing person case MP147027, with the date of last contact recorded as April 30, 2025. The available case information describes Roger as male, 55 years old at the time he went missing, with brown hair and brown eyes, standing approximately 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing roughly 180 to 220 pounds. He was last connected to the Richmond Hill area, a community along Georgia’s coast, where the circumstances of that final known sighting quickly raised concern.
The known timeline begins with Roger being seen walking toward the tree line behind several businesses in Richmond Hill. That detail has become one of the most important parts of the case, because it places him not simply away from home or out of contact, but moving into a wooded area near commercial properties. According to the case information, clothing he had been wearing was later discovered, along with his flashlight. Those recovered items deepened the uncertainty around what happened after he entered the wooded area, because they suggested that he may have separated from items that would normally have helped identify, protect, or guide him.
The case also notes that Roger left behind a bag, clothing, and his phone in a hotel room at the Red Roof Inn in Richmond Hill, Georgia. That combination of left-behind belongings is significant because a phone, bag, and extra clothing are items many people would typically keep close, especially while traveling or staying away from home. With those items still in the room, and with clothing and a flashlight found near the area where he was last seen, the known facts point to a disappearance centered around a narrow and troubling set of locations: the hotel room, the businesses nearby, and the wooded area behind them.
The Richmond Hill Police Department is listed as the investigating agency, with the case reportedly associated with agency case number 25050017 and a report date of May 1, 2025. NamUs identifies itself as a national centralized repository and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases, helping investigators, medical examiners, coroners, and families share and compare information in hopes of resolving cases. In Roger’s case, the public information does not provide a detailed explanation of why he walked into the wooded area, what his condition may have been at the time, or what happened after the last known sighting.
What remains is a deeply concerning disappearance with only a few confirmed public details: Roger Joseph Young was 55 years old, male, and last seen on April 30, 2025, in Richmond Hill, Georgia; he was reportedly seen walking into the wood line behind several businesses; some of his clothing and his flashlight were later found; and his bag, clothing, and phone were left behind in a Red Roof Inn hotel room. The heart of the case is the unanswered space between those known facts: a man last seen near businesses and woods in Richmond Hill, personal belongings left in more than one place, and a family and community left needing to understand where Roger went and what happened to him.
Last Seen: Apr 30, 2025
