Lawrence Edward Wells III was last seen by his mother and stepfather on September 28, 1992. He cooked them dinner, then left to collect some money owed to him. A week later, his black Dodge Colt was found downtown in the 2200 block of Smith. A police investigator who has worked on Lawrence's case for years told Lawrence's mother that there is reason to believe his body was taken into the swamps in Louisiana and "fed to alligators. "