Megan Nicole Lancaster was 25 when she was last seen in Wheelersburg, Ohio, on April 3, 2013. She planned to run errands and visit her parents but never arrived. Two days later her car was found abandoned at a fast-food restaurant in Portsmouth with her wallet on the passenger seat.

Family accounts say Megan had struggled with drug addiction in the months before she vanished but remained in daily contact with relatives and her young son. Notebooks recovered by a sister-in-law, Kadie Lancaster, reportedly contained lists of names and numbers and entries such as dance for and men who give money, suggesting involvement in sex work to support her habit. One name matched a local attorney later arrested on human trafficking charges, which Megan’s family believes could be connected to her disappearance.

Investigators have noted similarities between Megan’s case and other missing women from the region sometimes grouped as the Chillicothe Six, but no definitive link has been established. The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation released an age‑progressed image in May 2021. Anyone with information about Megan’s movements in April 2013 or contacts she listed in her notebooks is asked to come forward.