Terry Lynn Sovey, also identified in records as Terry Gayton, was 25 and a single mother from Pontiac, Michigan, when she disappeared from Millington on September 22, 1984. He said he lost his car keys and left on foot, leaving the vehicle at the farmhouse.

Authorities searched the swampy area and deployed canine units but located no evidence tied to Terry’s disappearance. Potential witnesses were reportedly unwilling to cooperate, with some said to be afraid because they had not come forward earlier. Bibby later served time for the Millington thefts, was paroled to Troy in 1993, and then vanished himself between September and November of that year; he is now listed as a missing person with an outstanding parole violation warrant. Investigators have said they would like to locate and re-interview him if he is still alive, since his account remains the last known narrative connected to Terry.

Terry was described as a white woman, about 5 feet 1 inch to 5 feet 2 inches tall, 120 to 130 pounds, with blonde hair, hazel eyes, and a tattoo on her left shoulder. No public statement in these reports confirms whether she has been found alive or deceased, and the circumstances of her disappearance remain unresolved. Did anyone in Millington or Pontiac remember Terry, William Bibby, or the farmhouse and swampy area behind it in 1984?