Regina Renee Cox was 18 and had just enlisted in the U.S. Navy, planning to report to Great Lakes Recruit Training Center on September 9, 1997. She was last seen the morning of August 23, 1997, leaving the parking lot of the U.S. Armed Services Recruiting Station in Somerset, Kentucky, driving a white Chevrolet Cavalier.

The next morning her car was found locked in the Wal-Mart parking lot about a mile from the recruiting station. Her purse, driver’s license, money and other personal items were inside; the car keys were missing. There was no sign of a struggle. She was wearing a tie-dyed t-shirt, blue jeans and black sandals, and wore a blue star sapphire ring on her left hand. She had shoulder-length brown hair, green eyes and scars on her right elbow and right wrist. The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department investigated and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service later became involved, but leads were exhausted and the case remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Regina, saw her that morning, or has information about her disappearance, please come forward.