Alfred Pearson: Contact and Search Records
A dated account of the family’s search.
Abstract
NamUs dates Alfred Pearson’s contact to November 26, 2017; Spectrum News reported on November 25, 2018.1,2
The Recorded Contact
NamUs lists Plymouth, Florida; Orange County Sheriff’s Office; case 17-106512; and a report date of November 27, 2017.1
The entry describes a white T-shirt, blue jeans and black tennis shoes.1
The Family’s Search in Local Reporting
Under an Apopka dateline, Spectrum News Staff reported on November 25, 2018, that Pearson had walked away from his family’s home and that deputies had spent days searching nearby woods.2
The story called him 76 and described his family’s continuing hope that someone would come forward.2 Those statements belong to the report’s 2018 context. This review did not include a new family interview.
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you find the account behind November 26 and separate contact from the following day’s report?1
Can you find dated agency updates supporting the search described in 2018?2
Can you document the contact location before treating the Plymouth field and Apopka reporting as a route?1,2 Keep your sources and questions in a Research File in Almost Solved.
Scope and Method
The original police file was not reviewed. No route, cause or present outcome is established.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, MP43148 public record; reviewed November 1, 2026.
- Spectrum News Staff, family search report, November 25, 2018; reviewed November 1, 2026.