John Glasgow was last seen leaving his Little Rock home early on the morning of Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. A tourist's photo showed that by that afternoon his SUV was parked outside the Mather Lodge at Petit Jean State Park.
Human remains found Wednesday in Petit Jean State Park are those of missing Little Rock construction executive John Glasgow, Conway County Sheriff Mike Smith confirmed to Arkansas Business early Thursday afternoon.
Glasgow’s family has scheduled a news conference at 4 p.m. at the Wright Lindsey & Jennings law firm in Little Rock, where his brother Roger Glasgow practices law.
(Update: At Thursday’s news conference, John’s brother Roger Glasgow says he suspects foul play.)
The discovery of a skull was reported by hikers at 4:48 p.m. on Wednesday, and Smith said the remains were taken to the State Crime Lab first thing Thursday morning. The discovery was made about 150 yards off Red Bluff Drive in the state park, Smith said.
Missing Since 2008
Glasgow was last seen leaving his Little Rock home early on the morning of Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, and a tourist’s photo showed that by that afternoon his SUV was parked outside the Mather Lodge at Petit Jean State Park. No other sign of Glasgow had been found since.
Glasgow, 45 at the time he went missing, was CFO of CDI Contractors LLC of Little Rock, which was then half-owned and is now wholly owned by Dillard’s Inc. He was legally declared dead in 2011.
“The circumstantial evidence of John’s death is substantial,” wrote Judge H. Vann Smith in his order. “John has been missing for three years without any credible information surfacing in that period that would suggest he might be alive somewhere.”
That same year, a twice-convicted felon named Jonathan Brawner told his lawyer and the Little Rock Police Department that he knew where Glasgow’s body was buried. He said he had been recruited by “thugs from Malvern” to whom he owed money to help bury Glasgow in a bean field near England in Lonoke County.
The bean field Brawner pinpointed as the burial site yielded no remains, despite time-consuming and expensive searches using sophisticated imaging equipment.
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