New Leads Sought In 40-Year Mystery Of Missing Morris County Man

MORRIS COUNTY, NJ — A Morris County resident last seen by his home four decades ago remains the focus of an active missing persons investigation, with police seeking new leads, authorities announced this week on the anniversary of his disappearance.

Edward Lawrence DuBarry was last seen on Sept. 7, 1984, by his home in the vicinity of Church Lane and Two Bridges Road in Towaco, police said. He was 36 at the time of his disappearance.

Authorities have revealed that his credit card was used to pay for a room at the Howard Johnson Hotel located at 551 Route 211 East in Middletown, N.Y., on the evening of his disappearance. It was also used twice that same day: at the Columbia Truck Stop at 2 Simpson Road in Columbia and at Bartco Penn Petroleum at 10 Stella St. in Matamoras, Pa.

The last recorded use of the credit card was four days later, on Sept. 11, 1984, at the Pompton Plains Shell station in Pompton Plains, according to the release.

DuBarry's pickup truck was located a week after he went missing, on Sept. 14, 1984, at Resort Point on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware Water Gap, but he was nowhere to be found.

On Monday, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office released a photograph of DuBarry from the 1980s and an age-progressed rendering of what he might look like today, if still alive.

DuBarry has scars on his chin, right elbow, and finger. He is a white male with blue eyes, and at the time of his disappearance, he was 5’5”, weighed 140 pounds and had brown hair, police said.

Now, 40 years later, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office is urging anyone with information about this case to contact the Missing Persons Unit at 973-285-6200.