Kaye Meyer, also known by aliases including Helen Deuchar and Kaye Johnson, was 80 when she disappeared from her Monson, Maine, home on August 24, 1986. She had been living with her granddaughter in a rented house; the granddaughter left for an overnight trip and returned the next day to find Kaye gone. Personal items — her cane, cigarettes, and purse — remained in the house. A local man reported seeing her walking slowly between the house and garage around noon on August 23, but there were no further confirmed sightings.

Kaye had a recently broken ankle that made walking difficult, poor eyesight from cataracts, and periods described as senility, and she was said to usually stay close to home. Investigators conducted extensive searches but were unsuccessful; foul play was considered likely. Family tensions over finances, including disputes about estate inheritance and her son’s repeated requests for money, plus the odd timing of bounced checks on a shared account with the granddaughter after the disappearance, added to suspicions but produced no conclusive leads.

Did anyone in Monson in August 1986 see Kaye or notice anything unusual around the house or neighborhood?