Michelle Lee Burchell, 21, vanished from the Bardwell, Kentucky area on Friday, May 27, 1994. She was a mother of two young children, living at her parents’ home. Michelle is described as 5 feet 6 inches, about 105 pounds, with blonde hair, blue eyes, a scar on the bridge of her nose and large plastic-framed prescription glasses.

Her boyfriend Marc picked her up that morning from a nearby railroad track where they often met because he was not welcome at her parents’ house. Marc told law enforcement they drove to look at a car, argued about child support, and that he dropped her back at the railroad tracks; Michelle has not been seen since. Her personal effects — purse, keys and some loose coins — were later found partially burned on a secluded dead-end road in a neighboring county, alongside a shovel, a pickaxe and a tool handle. She left behind her two toddlers, her car, makeup and an uncollected paycheck. The boyfriend, who remained legally married to another woman at the time, was the last known person to see her; no charges were filed.

Does anyone have memories or information about Michelle, the railroad-track meeting spot, or the dead-end road where her belongings were found?