Sandra Kay Patterson was 45 when she was last seen in Colorado Springs on February 28, 2009. Known to family as Sandy, she has brown hair and brown eyes and a scar on her lower lip. She sometimes used the middle name Kaye and the last names Elliott and Thompson.

At the time she disappeared Sandra was struggling with mental illness and addiction to drugs and alcohol. Her family says she had a history of short absences, sometimes a month or two, but had not been heard from since 2009. Her then-boyfriend told investigators she left and intended to move back to Tennessee or Nevada; she had formerly lived in those states as well as Indiana and Illinois. The Colorado Springs Police Department lists the case as open; the official missing-person report was filed April 26, 2011.

No definitive evidence of foul play is mentioned and her prolonged silence worries loved ones. If anyone knew Sandra, her movements, or where she might have stayed after February 28, 2009, please share what you know.