Joyce Lenz, age 81, was last seen Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at about 5:00 p.m. walking away from her home near West Tahkodah Lake Road in the Town of Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, near Cable. She is five feet tall, about 130 pounds, with graying hair and hazel eyes. Her last-known clothing was a denim jacket over possibly a pink sweatshirt, black pants, and reportedly a tennis shoe on one foot and a slipper on the other.

An immediate multiagency search followed, with the Bayfield County Sheriff’s Office coordinating K-9 teams, aircraft including planes and drones, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Wisconsin State Patrol, and numerous fire and search-and-rescue units from neighboring counties. Hundreds of people, including local volunteers, combed the thick woods, swampy lowlands and numerous lakes and streams typical of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, but no sign of Lenz was found during the multi-day effort. The active searches were later scaled back and the case moved to an ongoing investigation.

The disappearance remains unexplained and left family and the community with unanswered questions. If anyone saw Joyce Lenz on or after May 24, 2022, or has information about her movements that evening, please share what is known with investigators.