Diane Joy Cannon, also known as Joy Diane Cannon, was 26 when she vanished from her mother’s home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in early summer 1982. On June 3 she told her mother she was going to visit friends in the area, left the house on East 17th Street, and was never heard from again. It is unknown whether she left on foot or by vehicle and the identities of the friends she intended to see were never made public.

Diane was described as 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 6 inches, weighing 102 to 135 pounds, with brown hair and hazel or green eyes. She had tattoos reading love across the fingers of her left hand and either Jack or Bill on her right hand, and had prior fractures to her right upper arm and right clavicle. The Chattanooga Police Department opened an investigation but the trail went cold; no further confirmed contact occurred and investigators later considered the possibility of foul play.

If anyone knew Diane, her social circle in Chattanooga in 1982, or has information about that June 3 outing, please come forward and share what might help this long-unresolved case.