Melanie Dee Flynn was 24 when she vanished from Lexington, Kentucky, on a winter evening in 1977. She left her secretarial job at the Kentucky High School Athletic Association about 5:00 p.m., planned a 5:30 p.m. doctor’s appointment, and intended to go to her parents’ home for dinner—she never arrived at either appointment or home. At disappearance she wore a yellow ski jacket, blue jeans, hiking boots, a diamond cluster ring, and a silver-colored Pulsar digital watch.

Eleven days later her red 1975 Ford Elite was found in an apartment complex parking lot known for drug activity; the car contained her red leather coat and a recent-trip suitcase but not her purse or car keys. In August 1977 her purse was recovered floating in the Kentucky River about twenty miles south of Lexington with personal items and two bottles of medicine, including a prescription antihistamine. Months after she disappeared witnesses reported seeing a woman matching her description in Daytona Beach who spoke knowledgeably about Melanie’s life.

Investigators learned Melanie had served as a police informant and had a romantic involvement with narcotics officer Bill Canan. Her family believes she was abducted and murdered by police to silence her; a former officer later testified that Canan had ordered him to kill her.

Are there readers who knew Melanie or who have information about her movements in 1977?