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Where was Johnny Howard found? Missing Arkansas teen’s remains located in burned truck

Author

Emily Cortez

Published Jan 28, 2026

Johnny Howard of Stuttgart was accounted for missing to the Arkansas District Sheriff’s Office on May 4, 2023. Sometime thereafter around 5:00 pm, specialists found his body in a consumed vehicle on Hartz Seed Street, east of Stuttgart, as per an authority public statement.

Arkansas District Sheriff’s Office announced that the found body was shipped off the state investigative laboratory for distinguishing proof, which affirmed that it had a place with the 18-year-old missing teen.

The public statement by Arkansas Region Sheriff’s Office expressed that the consumed vehicle was a Passage F250 which was accounted for taken on May 2, 2023.

Fox News announced that as indicated by Stuttgart Police Office records, the report for someone who has gone missing for Johnny was documented under two hours after the body and the pickup truck were found.

Arkansas Leftist Newspaper detailed that Johnny Howard, who was 6 feet, 1 inch tall and weighed 180 pounds, was last spotted around 9:00 pm the day preceding he was accounted for missing.

The report additionally referenced that his friends and family said that Johnny might have strolled off or left in a white truck or dark vehicle.

An instructor who had been showing Johnny Howard for quite a long time, expounded on his demise on Facebook and portrayed him as somebody with incredible habits and a companion to everybody. She composed:

“Johnny was a youngster. He did idiotic stuff very much like each youngster – however that didn’t make him a terrible youngster very much as it doesn’t make your child an awful youngster. Trust me, our children are all included. Johnny was not malevolent. He was not terrible. Not on any day at any point might you at any point cause me to accept he some way or another merited this. He was not that person.”

Arkansas Area Sheriff’s Office detailed that the case is a continuous examination and no additional data will be delivered at that point.
Arkansas Liberal Periodical announced that as no suspects have been distinguished at this point, local area coordinators have offered reward cash for any tip prompting the captures.

The award cash adds up to $3,800, and the witness will stay unknown. The report by Arkansas Leftist Newspaper expressed that Frank Bledsaw of Stuttgart Search and Salvage, who is a neighbor to Johnny Howard, said that even a little lead is better compared to having none.

Arkansas Region Sheriff’s Office has additionally asked the general population to approach in the event that they have any data that can assist with the case.