JOHNSTOWN — The whereabouts of a 47-year-old Gloversville man is still uncertain more than 120 days after he vanished.
Since James E. Anderson, Sr. was last seen in early August, multiple leads have been debunked, according to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department. Sightings of the blue-eyed man have been reported as far away as Monroe County.
“Well, the fact that we haven't had any activity on a cell phone that he had and no one’s seeing him, it's suspicious in that sense,” said Fulton County Sheriff Richard Giardino. “It doesn't seem like he intentionally left the area, but we don't have anything concrete.”
The case is still “very” active, according to the county’s top law enforcement official. As of last week, the department was still interviewing potential spotters.
“We've had leads that had him in Amsterdam and other places like Rochester but we tracked them down and they were not him,” Giardino said.
Anderson was last seen on Old Peck Hill Road on Aug. 1 in the town of Johnstown. After an argument at his mother’s house in the Gloversville area, he borrowed a vehicle from a local woman and returned it with an empty tank of gas.
The 6-foot-3, 135-pound man known as “Jimbob” was wearing a green camo shirt at the time.
While he did have fights with his mother, his sister, Heather Fegley, previously told the Daily Gazette Family of Newspapers in September that it was uncharacteristic of him to be gone so long. She didn’t respond to a request for comment on Sunday.
In October, Fegley in a Facebook post expressed dissatisfaction with local news stations for not following up on his disappearance.
“It's been 3 MONTHS AND NOTHING,” Fegley said in a post. “This is absolutely unbelievable. Isn't this how the public becomes aware of missing people who are still missing???”
Anderson is a father to two, uncle to five and great uncle to eight, according to his sister. He has previously worked at the now-shuttered That Tape Place in Johnstown and as a cab driver.
Those with potential information on Anderson’s whereabouts are asked to contact county investigators at 518-736-2100.
There is currently only one other unsolved missing persons case possibly connected to Fulton County. Tammie Anne McCormick, then-13, disappeared while hitchhiking from Saratoga Springs in 1986 and a since-deceased person of interest, Arthur Mason Slaybaugh II, owned a property in Northampton.
Still among the missing within the greater FulMont region is Kellisue Ackernecht of Amsterdam and Peter G. Lorang of Charlton. The two were last seen in 2008 and 2001, respectively. Both cases have been deemed suspicious by authorities.