Branson Kayne Perry (born February 24, 1981; disappeared April 11, 2001) is an American missing person who vanished under mysterious circumstances from his residence at 304 West Oak Street in Skidmore, Missouri.

His disappearance received national media coverage and was profiled extensively by journalist and crime writer Diane Fanning in a book concerning Perry's relative Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was murdered and had her unborn child stolen in 2004.

Perry disappeared on the afternoon of April 11, 2001, after walking out of his house, having told a visiting friend that he was returning a pair of jumper cables to an exterior shed.

After several years of investigation, police arrested Jack Wayne Rogers of Fulton, Missouri, on various charges unrelated to Perry's disappearance.

In their investigation, they recovered message board posts made from Rogers's home computer that described a first-hand account of Perry's rape and murder.

[1] During a search of the property, police were unable to locate the jumper cables Perry had purportedly left to return in the shed; two weeks later, however, they were found just inside the door.

[12] Rogers was arrested on charges of first-degree assault and practicing medicine without a license after removing a transgender woman's genitals in a makeshift gender reassignment surgery at a hotel in Columbia.

[13] While investigating Rogers's personal belongings, detectives discovered child pornography on his computer,[14] as well as evidence of various posts made on message boards under the usernames "BuggerButt," "ohailsatan," and "extremebodymods," describing the graphic torture and assault of multiple men.

[19] While performing a subsequent search of Rogers' property, a turtle claw necklace resembling one owned by Perry was discovered in one of his vehicles.

After attending the sentencing, Perry's mother stated she no longer felt Rogers was responsible for her son's disappearance: The police are not completely ruling him out, but now the investigation has turned towards Skidmore again.

[23] In June 2009, law enforcement revealed they were completing an excavation of a site in Quitman, Missouri, after receiving a "credible tip" that Perry's remains may have been located there.

[18] On August 14, 2022, the current Nodaway County Sheriff, Randy Strong, announced a suspect had been identified, but more evidence was needed before an arrest could be made.

[27] The case also received coverage in a July 17, 2010, episode of the Fox television program America's Most Wanted[3] and in the Sundance Channel series No One Saw a Thing in 2019.