Bennie Crockett was last seen at Rankin's Grocery on U.S. 521 in Taylor's Grove, South Carolina on August 12, 1977, after 7:00 p.m. Witnesses reported that he was talking to someone inside a vehicle parked in the median of the highway. He has never been heard from again, and his loved ones believe he was murdered.

Bennie was declared legally dead seven years after his disappearance, but there have been no charges made in his case, and his body has never been found.