Name: Melanie Dee Flynn
Case Classification: Missing
Missing Since: January 25, 1977
Location Last Seen: Lexington/Fayette, Fayette County, Kentucky.
Date of Birth: November 24, 1952
Age: 24 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'0"-5'1"
Weight: 100-115 lbs.
Hair Color: Blonde/Strawberry
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Hair occasionally colored, and colors ranged from blond to black.
Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown
Clothing: Yellow ski jacket, blue jeans, hiking boots that looked like they were covered in hair.
Jewelry: Diamond cluster ring, silver colored Pulsar digital watch
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Flynn was last seen on January 25, 1977 about 17.00 in Lexington/Fayette Ky when she left her office, as a secretary, at the Kentucky High School Athletic Association on Cooper Drive. She never arrived at home that night.
She was seen talking to someone in a blue van near the intersection of Cooper and South Limestone Street. Another witness had seen Flynn later that night in Nellie Kelly's, then a Lexington restaurant. She was talking to a man with a pockmarked face and brown hair parted in the middle.
Her abandoned car was discovered 11 days later in northern Lexington. The 24-year-old secretary was the subject of a highly publicized search after she disappeared.
Melanie's family believes that she knew too much about the Lexington Police drug trafficking upon the arrest of a former Lexington Police Officer on cocaine trafficking charges. At the time of her disappearance there was a scandal involving the Lexington Police narcotics squad.
Agency Name: Lexington-Fayette Police Department
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: (859) 258-3600
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 013177048
NCIC Case Number: M-072117816
NamUs Case Number: MP1698
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Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 11/09/2022 - By: kc
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** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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