Man missing from Siler City killed in car wreck
A man who was found dead inside his wrecked car early Friday in Randolph County has been identified by family members as Jesse Lewis Maness, a 24-year-old man who was missing from Siler City since Saturday.
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The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office said a passing motorist called 911 shortly before 2 a.m. Friday and reported the wrecked car, which was overturned below a bridge in the 8600 block of N.C. Highway 22/42, near the Chatham County line.
The Chatham County's Sheriff's Office said Maness' car had overturned in a creek, and his body was found under the water.
Maness was the lone occupant in the car. No other vehicles were involved in the accident.
Siler City police had been searching for Maness, who was last seen leaving a Mexican restaurant about 2:30 a.m. Saturday. He was driving a burgundy, four-door 1995 Chevrolet Corsica with North Carolina license plate YXW-1979, police said.
His family and friends told police that they have not talked with him since then, which is "extremely out of the ordinary" for him, police said.
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