Name: Diane Marie Kennedy
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: December 31, 1996
Location Last Seen: Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina
Date of Birth: November 21, 1957
Age: 39 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 4'11" - 5'0"
Weight: 145 - 175 lbs
Hair Color: Brown, shoulder length
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Wears prescription glasses; scar on upper middle forehead; hole type indentation mark at the base of throat; birthmark scar on neck near Adam's apple
Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Available
DNA: Unknown
Clothing: Gray wool winter jacket, blue, gray, or black jeans and tan winter boots.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Small black duffel bag with red straps. Prescription glasses.
Diane Kennedy was last seen at approximately 10:00 pm, as she walked away from her Waynesville home on December 31, 1996.
Kennedy has worked in the Dental field as a technician for most of her working career.
She has lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut and North Carolina and has relatives in Florida and California.
Agency Name: Haywood County Sheriffs Office
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: (828) 452-6768
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 970030
NamUs Case Number: 2524
Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 04/19/2024 - By: kc
Questions or comments? Please contact appropriate member of the Area Team
** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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