In 1991, This Louisiana Man Went To Buy A Gallon Of Milk And Vanished, Leaving His Three Daughters Searching For Answers To This Day

She recalled how she saw a van drive up and two the street twice– the driver appearing to be lost. Then, Christy claimed to have seen the driver, a man, reach over to pick up a bag. She had no idea what was in the bag until the man got out and approached her porch.

“As he walked towards me, he looked really nervous, and he was shaking. He wanted to know if I wanted to buy some frozen fish,” Christy explained.

“And I told him no, and I smelled alcohol on his breath. He looked homeless, kind of straggly. And as he got, I’d say, 10 feet from me, he turned around and glanced at me. That’s when it hit me that I saw that man on a missing person flyer in the post office.”

Christy later went to the police station, where she identified pictures of A.J. Afterward, she reportedly told authorities that he was “99.9% sure” that the man she spoke with was A.J.

Due to this, Detective Naquin suggested that the 50-year-old might have suffered from memory loss following a relapse.

“A.J. Breaux is a recovering alcoholic, and if he did start drinking again, there are all sorts of things that could’ve happened. He could’ve had a blackout and not remembered who he was,” Det. Naquin said.

Still, A.J.’s daughters refuse to believe that their father started drinking again or disappeared by choice. Instead, they are adamant that A.J. was targeted because of his orientation and status as an AA  member.

“We firmly believe that’s why our dad isn’t here today,” Melissa told Houma Today.

“Not only was he an AA member and a [gay man], but he worked in a men’s clothing store. For 30 years, he could not say he was gay because men in the community had to go be fitted by him. He had no other trade, so that was his way of life.”

Unfortunately, though, there have been no substantial leads or arrests in A.J.’s case. So, he has remained missing for over 31 years now.

In 1998, A.J. was declared legally dead by a judge. But, being granted the death certificate did not change anything for A.J.’s daughters– who continue searching for answers in their father’s cold case.