Missing Virginia antique shop owner's family believes he was murdered after months without answers

EXCLUSIVE – A Virginia man's 2 sons are hopeless for answers aft their begetter vanished successful April, and they judge immoderate nefarious enactment whitethorn beryllium astatine play successful their father's unexpected disappearance.

Kenneth "Kenny" Turner, 79, was surviving a quiescent beingness arsenic an antique store proprietor successful Fieldale, Virginia, erstwhile helium disappeared connected April 12.

"I deliberation idiosyncratic picked him up and took him somewhere, but where, I don't know," Turner's son, Michael Turner, told Fox News Digital. "For some of his vehicles to inactive beryllium astatine location and his wallet, it was similar helium was riding retired and coming backmost home. Because helium near the structure airy on."

Michael added that his father's beforehand doorway does not adjacent each the mode unless it is pulled truly hard, and the doorway was unopen the greeting helium realized his begetter was gone. 

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Kenneth Turner has been missing from his hometown of Fieldale, Virginia, since April 12. (handout)

"[H]e really had to adjacent the door," Michael said. "So my happening is, idiosyncratic picked him up and [did] thing with him, but I don't cognize what and who."

The week anterior to his disappearance, Kenny had conscionable been successful the infirmary for precocious humor pressure, truthful Michael and his brother, Bryant, had been checking successful connected their begetter beauteous often to marque definite helium was taking his medicine and recovering. Michael had visited his begetter astatine location the Wednesday earlier helium vanished connected Saturday, and Bryant had seen his begetter the Friday before.

"I don't cognize what to think," Bryant told Fox News Digital of his father's disappearance.

He noted that Kenny's ft was swollen the nighttime earlier helium went missing, making him deliberation helium wouldn't conscionable locomotion distant from home. The evening earlier his disappearance, Bryant told his begetter helium should beryllium down, unbend and ticker TV. He'd beryllium backmost successful the greeting to assistance with a sidewalk merchantability Kenny was readying connected having astatine his antique store connected Saturday morning.

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Kenny Turner had plans for a sidewalk merchantability astatine his antique store the greeting helium vanished. (handout)

"I locked the door, and I left," Bryant said.

Michael and Bryant were going to assistance their begetter acceptable up for his sidewalk merchantability unneurotic connected Saturday morning. Instead, for respective hours, the brothers drove backmost and forth, separately, from the antique store to Kenny's location trying to Kenny — reasoning possibly helium had gone retired to breakfast, oregon possibly helium was with the different member — until they some realized thing was wrong. 

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Michael said it was retired of quality for their begetter not to beryllium successful interaction with them, but particularly with his sister.

The Henry County Sheriff's Office continues to analyse Kenny Turner's disappearance. (Handout)

They called constabulary connected Saturday day astir 3 oregon 4 p.m. to record a missing persons report, Michael said. Police did a grid hunt and a chopper hunt covering a radius of astir 25 miles that day.

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The Henry County Sheriff's Office said it is inactive investigating Kenny's disappearance but has not recovered immoderate signs of the missing father, nor person they named immoderate suspects successful transportation with his vanishing.

"I've got a feeling he's dormant somewhere."

"For him to beryllium gone this agelong and not to get successful interaction with maine oregon my brother, I've got a feeling he's dormant somewhere," Michael said, adding that helium believes someone whitethorn person killed his father.

Kenny Turner's wallet and vehicles were near astatine his Fieldale, Virginia, location connected the greeting of April 12, erstwhile helium disappeared. (Handout)

Michael's lone mentation astir idiosyncratic who whitethorn person been targeting his begetter is simply a relative whom helium described arsenic a "bum."

"He's been successful occupation before. He's a freeloader and a bum, successful my opinion. So, similar I said, if helium went to my dada and asked to get something, and my dada said no, helium is the benignant to get huffy and bash thing with him, but I don't know."

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Michael is asking anyone with accusation astir his father's disappearance to travel forward. More than six months aft Kenneth vanished, Michael said what his household wants astir present is "closure."

Anyone with accusation astir Turner's disappearance is asked to interaction HCSO 276-638-8751.