Clairene Giles Nivens, 37, vanished from McMinn County, Tennessee after leaving her family home in Etowah on the morning of December 12, 1997. She reportedly packed her bags and was picked up by an unknown person around 6:30 AM. At the time she went missing she had brown hair and brown eyes, was 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed about 120 pounds.

A few days later, on December 14, 1997, Clairene is said to have briefly returned to the family home to retrieve her vehicle. That vehicle was later found abandoned at a gas station in neighboring Monroe County; no further sightings of her have been confirmed since that day. The official missing person report was not filed with the McMinn County Sheriff’s Department until February 2, 1998.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation lists her as a missing person. Few leads developed and the case has gone cold, leaving family and the community without clear answers. Does anyone have information about Clairene’s last known movements or the vehicle found at the Monroe County gas station?