Stephen Blaylock
- The Find Me Project
- Jul 15
- 3 min read
What This Case Needs
Support Status: 40%
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Case Information
Name: Stephen Blaylock
Missing Since: June 9, 2025
Missing Age: 41
Missing From: Marion, North Carolina
Biological Sex: Male
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 190 lbs
Race / Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Distinctive Physical Features: 828 tattoo on the inner part of his right bicep and another tattoo of praying hands on his left forearm.
Clothing & Accessories: Requires electric wheelchair for mobility.
Transportation: On Foot
External Link: N/A
Media Awareness Score: 18 out of 100
Stephen Blaylock’s case has received the minimum viable dose of public attention. A brief local news cycle at the time of the MCSO advisory and scattered social media amplification, but has generated no sustained coverage, no national pickup, no NGO database listing, and no repeat journalism. The case is functionally invisible at the 13-month mark.
Circumstances of Disappearance
His name is Stephen Michael Blaylock. He is forty-one years old. He is an amputee who relies on an electric wheelchair to move through the world. On June 9, 2025, he was last seen at a homeless encampment on Bambi Drive in East Marion, McDowell County, North Carolina. That wheelchair was found at the encampment. He was not. Sixteen days passed before anyone filed a missing person report. Stephen Blaylock is still missing.
Before this becomes a case file, we want to tell you who Stephen Blaylock is, because in cases like his, that part gets lost fast. Stephen is a middle-aged man with deep roots in Western North Carolina. Public records trace him through Asheville, Black Mountain, Hendersonville, and eventually Marion. That's not a random drift, that's a person who found his way to this part of the state and stayed. The tattoo on his right inner bicep reads 828. That's the area code for Western North Carolina. It's not decorative. It's a declaration. This is where he belongs.
He uses an electric wheelchair due to an amputation. That isn't a minor biographical detail, it is the central operational fact of this case. Stephen cannot move independently without that chair. He is not someone who walks off into the woods or catches a ride to the next county without anyone noticing. His range of movement, without assistance, is profoundly limited.
June 9, 2025: Stephen Blaylock is last heard from at the Bambi Drive encampment in East Marion. We don't know what time of day. We don't know exactly what was said or who was there. What we know is that after June 9, he was gone. His electric wheelchair remained at the encampment.
June 25, 2025: The McDowell County Sheriff's Office issued a public missing person advisory. Detective Grant Robinson was named the lead investigator. WLOS and WSPA ran the story. The AWARE Foundation pushed it on social media. For a day or two, Stephen's name circulated. Then the news cycle moved on.
Intelligence Overview
Bayesian Missing Persons Probability Model
Findings
Pending Completion
Case Contact Information
Case Contact Entity: McDowell County Sheriff's Office
Case Contact Name: Detective Grant Robinson
Case Contact Info: (828) 652-2235, extension 1226
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