Chipley Charles Sanders, known as Chip and born Chipley Dale Lay, was 13 when he vanished from the Ramey/Estep Home in Ashland, Kentucky on October 4, 1984. He had been placed in that group home in 1983 after being adopted from Radcliff, Kentucky four years earlier. Chipley is described as a white male, brown hair, hazel or brown eyes, five feet five inches tall, about 150 pounds, with a light-colored oblong birthmark on his back just over his left shoulder.

On the morning of October 4 Chipley and a 14-year-old friend, James Eric Bess, slipped away from the home but were found by Ashland police and returned. That evening, at about 9:30 p.m., the two boys ran away again and were never seen or heard from afterward. The Ashland Police Department has classified Chipley as an endangered runaway and the case remains open; the boys’ fate is unknown and age-progressed images have been circulated.

If anyone knew Chipley, James, or their movements in Ashland in October 1984, please share information that could help the investigation.