JENNIFER LYNN WYANT

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I worked at Colonial Baking company in Nashville from March 1973 until April 1982. A beautiful young girl named Jennifer Lynn Wyant began working in the Distribution Dept where I worked in 1980. I remember that the male employees went gaga over her because she was so pretty. She dated one of our supervisors who I was friends with. I can't remember his name but he was tragically killed in Atlanta a few years later when he ran head on into a tractor trailer truck. I helped train this girl some and she was very friendly. One morning she didn't report to work and after her apartment was searched it was discovered that she was missing. Nothing was disturbed and her car was still in the parking lot. Police were never able to find her and as of this date her disappearance is still an unsolved mystery. I am posting this because for years I could never remember her name until this morning when I saw a story about her on Youtube. It always bothered me that such a nice girl could go missing and just seemed to disappear from the face of the earth. The following details are from a website called The Charley Project.


Wyant was last seen inside her residence at Tanglewood Apartments (now called Whispering Oaks) in the 200 block of Tanglewood Court in Nashville, Tennessee on June 28, 1980. She disappeared after leaving a softball team pool party alone, and has never been heard from again. Her apartment was left undisturbed and her car was located in the complex parking lot, but there was no sign of her at the scene. Neighbors reported that they heard screaming and when they looked out their windows, they saw three or four individuals forcing a woman into a dark-colored four-door sedan and driving away. The witnesses told the apartment security guard about what they saw and heard, but the guard didn't inform police at the time. Investigators believe the woman the witnesses saw was Wyant.


 On December 11, 1980, almost six months after her disappearance, Wyant's Tennessee driver's license was found on Blue Lake Road (now called Blue Lake Lane) in Rutherford County, Tennessee. This was close to Piercy Priest Lake, fifteen and a half miles east of Wyant's residence and three miles northeast of LaVergne, Tennessee. A housing complex was under development in the area at the time. Police brought dogs to search the nearby woods, but no trace of Wyant was located. According to her loved ones, Wyant's life was going well at the time of her disappearance. She had bought a nice car that she took good care of, and was working at Colonial Bakery while going to night school. Foul play is suspected in her case.



Missing Since
06/28/1980
Missing From
Nashville, Tennessee
Classification
Endangered Missing
Sex
Female
Race
White
Date of Birth
12/03/1958 (66)
Age
21 years old
Height and Weight
5'3, 125 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s)
Dark-colored four-door sedan
Distinguishing Characteristics
Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Wyant's ears are pierced and she has small surgical scars behind her earlobes. She has a one-and-a-half-inch scar midway down her left shin, and a very light tan birthmark on the left side of her neck at collar level, and her right-side front tooth has a chip in the corner.

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