132. Smells Like Dedication - The Jeffrey Lynn Combs Case And The Mission Of CUE - With Special Guest Jerry Sigmon

This time around we focus not just on another missing persons case where we KNOW that SOMEONE knows something that could close it - but also a look into an amazing organization working hard to solve that case and dozens of others around the United States.  The case: 41 year-old Jeffrey Combs from Wilkesboro North Carolina, a sweet and caring fellow who, after a hard-knocks youth filled with tragedy, death, jail time and even partial paralysis, had begun to pull his life together in October 2008.  By then, Jeff was living back in Wilkesboro with his mother Lucy.  After befriending a homeless couple - after opening his mom's home to that couple - and after that couple was ejected for bad behavior, Jeff found unwanted trouble.  His moped - which he needed to get around - was stolen, and when he was sure he'd found it down at the homeless encampment where his former friends lived, by all appearances he headed there to retrieve it - and was never seen again.  There is near certainty as to who the (now deceased) killers of Jeff Combs were - but no one  who could help prove it has stepped forward.  And so Jeff's mom Lucy has been left for the past 11-plus years in limbo,  not knowing where her son is.  And that brings us to the heroes of that amazing organization - it's called The CUE Center for Missing Persons - CUE stands for "Community United Effort."  Lucy Combs  turned to this national group of volunteers for help, and the angels of CUE have been by her side ever since - and will stay by her side until Jeff's case is solved.  Joining Melissa on the phone is Jerry Sigmon, CUE's  Western North Carolina State Director, the CUE volunteer who has been with Lucy Combs f rom the moment she turned to the organization.  Jerry discusses not just the Combs case but the mission and operation of CUE - a true blessing to families of the missing - as well as the tragedy in his own life that drew him to become a CUE volunteer.  If  you know anything about the Jeffrey Lynn Combs case, PLEASE contact the Wilkes County Sheriff's Office at (336) 903-7600.  If you'd like more information on the CUE Center for Missing Persons, visit their website at http://www.ncmissingpersons.org