Lynn Akin, second from left, speaks Monday during a news conference about her brother James "Jimmy" Tidwell, who has been missing since 2012. (Glenn Evans/Longview News-Journal)

HENDERSON — The family of a Rusk County man who vanished more than six years ago announced a $6,000 reward Thursday for information revealing what happened to James “Jimmy” Tidwell.

“I still do not believe that he voluntarily, willingly left that truck he loved and walked away,” Tidwell’s sister, Lynn Akin, said Monday morning at a press conference at the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office.

Tidwell was last seen on Feb. 24, 2012, leaving work after an overnight shift at Flanders Electric in Longview.

His white, Ford pickup was found days later, parked on FM 95 in Rusk County about 5 miles from his Mount Enterprise area home. His eyeglasses were in the truck, but his wallet, keys and cellphone were not found.

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