Lydia Ann Perkins was 14 when she disappeared from her Lexington, Kentucky neighborhood in the autumn of 1997. On October 26 she spent the day with her younger brother, visiting their grandmother and then going to her boyfriend’s home in the Cardinal Valley area. Lydia’s brother left first; she followed and was seen walking toward her house on Rugby Road. Family believe she reached home because she placed a phone call to a cousin from the residence, but sometime after that call she vanished and never made contact again. Her family reported her missing within hours.

At the time Lydia was described as a white female, 4 feet 11 inches tall, about 90 pounds, with red hair and hazel eyes. Distinctive marks include a brown circular birthmark on the right side of her neck, a scar on her right eyebrow and another in the center of her forehead. Her case was initially classified as a runaway for about two years because she had a history of leaving home without permission, though she had never been gone long or far from the neighborhood. That classification was later changed to endangered missing.

Investigators have revisited the case over the years and have used new technology and methods.

Did anyone in Cardinal Valley or on Rugby Road remember Lydia or notice anything unusual around October 26, 1997?