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January 25th, 1977.

Lexington, Kentucky.

24-year-old Melanie Flynn leaves her workplace but fails to show up for an appointment and does not return home.

Two weeks later, Melanie's abandoned car is discovered in an apartment complex parking lot

and her purse is found washed up next to the Kentucky River later that summer.

After numerous eyewitnesses claimed to have seen Melanie alive in Florida, the police closed the investigation

but her family becomes convinced she was murdered.

Over the years, rumors circulate that Melanie worked as an undercover informant for the narcotic squad

and was killed by corrupt police officers who were involved in drug trafficking

but the actual truth about what happened to her remains unknown.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and we've got a convoluted missing persons case to cover today,

the 1977 disappearance of Melanie Flynn.

I received a request to cover this case from a listener some time last year and while

I had never heard of it before, I recently found myself inside a very deep rabbit hole.

Melanie Flynn was a young woman who hailed from a prominent family in Lexington, Kentucky

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