Sandra Kay Travis, 58, was last seen at her Mayfield, Kentucky, home near Old Dukedom Road and Slaughter Road on July 31, 2005. Her disappearance was not reported until August 21 when her husband of 25 years, Bobby Travis, filed the missing person report after relatives learned his initial explanation — that Sandra had died while visiting their children in Mount Vernon, Illinois — was false.

Bobby later told investigators Sandra had left voluntarily with a semi-truck driver from southern Illinois; that account could not be confirmed and he declined a polygraph. Neighbors described a troubled marriage and alleged Bobby was physically and emotionally abusive. He was named a person of interest but was never formally charged before his death in 2014.

Investigators searched a nearby pond in 2007 and in 2019 excavated beneath a 12 by 20-foot concrete slab poured in front of the house shortly after Sandra vanished; neither search produced evidence. Sandra is described as having red hair, blue eyes, freckles, a chin dimple, scars and a birthmark, and wearing wire-framed eyeglasses and a thin gold band on her left pinky finger.

Anyone with information about Sandra Travis or her whereabouts is asked to contact the Graves County Sheriff’s Office.