Brenda Gail Lambert, 22, was last seen the evening of July 26, 1992, at her home on Windmill Hill Road in Bluewell, West Virginia, after celebrating her son’s first birthday. The party ended by 9:00 p.m.; the following morning Brenda was gone. Her car, purse, keys and other personal items were left inside the house, and there were no signs of forced entry or a struggle.

At the time she disappeared she was described as 5 feet 2 inches tall, 110–115 pounds, with curly shoulder-length black hair and blue eyes. Distinctive marks include pierced ears, dark freckles on her shoulders, a birthmark on the back of her leg and a one-inch scar on her right wrist. Brenda had been separating from her husband, Raymond Lambert, and had filed then withdrawn a domestic violence complaint in early July 1992; tension between them was noted at the birthday gathering. Raymond attended the party and left with the children around 8:00 p.m.

Investigators suspected foul play. An unnamed male suspect failed a polygraph but no charges were filed. A man Brenda had reportedly been seeing, Mark Anthony Cook, disappeared in January 1993, and authorities have considered a possible connection. Brenda was legally declared deceased in 2022, and her family continues to seek answers and a way to bring her home for a proper burial.