Brenda Kay Carroll was 46 when she went missing from Knoxville, Tennessee. She was last definitively seen on December 27, 2017, leaving the University of Tennessee Medical Center with her roommate, Bonnie Drane, in Drane’s silver Honda Accord. Carroll sent a message to a relative on January 1, 2018, asking for money for food and cigarettes, and no family contact has been reported since.

Carroll is linked to two other people who disappeared around the same time: Bonnie Drane and William Inklebarger. The three were known to associate with one another and led transient lifestyles; they had lived together in an East Knoxville apartment on Linden Avenue before Inklebarger moved out in December after the power was disconnected. Drane’s silver Honda Accord was found abandoned on January 21, 2018, with all her belongings inside and the driver’s seat pushed back in a position inconsistent with Drane’s height.

Authorities have identified Jeremy Jerome Hardison, known as Big County, as a person of interest; he is serving a life sentence for an unrelated September 2017 first-degree murder. Investigators say the missing trio had deep drug connections and were associates of Hardison. The FBI has offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to their whereabouts and to hold those responsible accountable.

If anyone knew Brenda, where she spent time, or saw her after December 27, 2017, please share what is known.