Linda Sue Nickell was 20 when she vanished from Flint, Michigan, in February 1976. Records disagree on the exact date she was last seen—NamUs lists February 27, while other longstanding reports put it at February 2—but everyone agrees her sister last watched her walk from the family home on Davison Road toward the neighborhood tavern known as the Thrift City at Davison and Avalon. Linda planned to use the payphone there to call a friend named Irene and never returned.

She was about 5 feet 4 inches tall, roughly 130 pounds, with green eyes and hair described variously as blond, strawberry blond, reddish blond, brown and red. She had a healed fracture of the right arm and three missing teeth. Linda had worked locally and was known to hitchhike between Flint, Whittemore and Tawas and to use recreational drugs, facts that widened the area investigators considered.

Foul play is suspected, and the family’s concerns led to investigative steps years later, including a 2003 cadaver-dog search of her father’s property; no evidence was found and he was never charged. The case remains open and unresolved. If anyone knew Linda, saw her that February evening, or has information about her movements after she left home, please share what is known.