Account
Jan 30, 2019
Dec 06, 2019
Paul
Lambert
77
34
71 inches
180 lbs
White / Caucasian
Male
Paul Anthony Lambert was 34 years old when he was last seen in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 8, 1981. He was in the city on business and was staying at the Maison Dupuy Hotel on Toulouse Street. Reports from that day indicate he was seen getting into a car with a woman with blonde hair. Lambert, who went by the nickname Tony, was described as a white male with brown hair and brown eyes, standing at 5'11" and weighing 180 pounds. A distinguishing physical feature was a scar on his left ear. At the time of his disappearance, the Carmel Police Department in Indiana and the New Orleans Police Department were the investigating agencies. The circumstances surrounding Paul Lambert's disappearance are complex and potentially linked to a series of other criminal cases in Indiana. His disappearance may be connected to the August 1981 murder of Lora Lynn Morris, the March 1982 disappearance of Charles Darwin "Chuck" Smith, and the 1986 disappearance of Gertrude Snedegar. All four individuals had connections to Stephen Cabe Snedegar, who owned a waste oil business in Greenfield, Indiana. Morris was Stephen's daughter, Gertrude was his ex-wife, and Smith was a former employee. It is believed that Lambert and another man had made an offer to purchase Stephen's business shortly before Morris went missing. Lambert traveled to New Orleans for a meeting with Stephen Snedegar just before he vanished. The investigation into Lambert's disappearance has been fraught with troubling accounts. Stephen Snedegar reportedly told some people that he and Lambert had gone on an airplane ride over the Gulf of Mexico, and that Lambert did not return from that trip. The cases of the murder of Lora Lynn Morris and the disappearances of her mother Gertrude Snedegar, Charles Darwin "Chuck" Smith, and Paul Anthony Lambert all remain unsolved. The lack of resolution in these interconnected cases has left families searching for answers for decades. The overview of this case reveals a complex web of relationships and suspicious events spanning multiple states, with the disappearance of Paul Anthony Lambert from a New Orleans hotel being a critical, yet unresolved, piece of a much larger and more sinister puzzle.
Sep 08, 1981
New Orleans
Louisiana
Orleans Parish
No
46962
Carmel Police Department
Carmel
Indiana
Hamilton County
46032
Phillip Hobson
Sergeant
3 Civic Square, Indiana
3175712500
Local
Law Enforcement
C816058
Carmel Police Department
na
Brown
Brown
Brown
05/22/2026
