Margaret Pennington, known as Peggy and sometimes using the surname Bernald-Pennington, vanished from her Silver Springs, Nevada home in early July 1999. On July 2 she was at the 5 Star Mobile Home Park with her son Timothy and his wife, said there was food in the kitchen, then walked out of the house and was never seen again. She was last seen wearing a blue short-sleeved sweater, black jeans, white tennis shoes and a yellow metal wedding band. Distinguishing marks include a birthmark on her upper right buttock and a circular scar near her upper right hip.

A week passed before she was reported missing on July 9, 1999. Margaret had sometimes left for short periods but always returned to pick up her Social Security check, a pattern that did not repeat. Investigators with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office have long believed foul play was involved and have focused on people close to her; both her husband and her son Timothy Ray Pennington have been described as persons of interest. Timothy was later convicted in 2000 of kidnapping his estranged wife and, after his release, killed his girlfriend and himself in 2012. No one has been publicly cleared in Margaret’s disappearance and no body has been recovered.

Does anyone who knew Margaret or who lived in Silver Springs in 1999 have details that might fill the gaps around her last day?