Lucy Meadows Missing Person Case

Jan 01, 2010

Aug 03, 2020

Lucy

Meadows

31

2

32 inches

30 lbs

White / Caucasian

Female

In the summer of 1996, a heart-wrenching story began to unfold in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, with the disappearance of three-year-old Lucy Rebecca Meadows. On July 25th, the little girl, of Caucasian and Korean descent, was reportedly with her mother, Yong Meadows, in the bustling parking lot of the Rivergate Mall. At the time of her disappearance, Lucy was described as being about 2'8" tall and weighing 30 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a long, blue denim button-down dress, white socks, and white canvas shoes. The initial account given to authorities was that after her mother let her out of the back seat of their car, she walked around to the passenger side to get some packages, and in that brief moment, Lucy vanished. An immediate and extensive search of the mall and its surroundings by mall security and law enforcement yielded no trace of the child. The investigation into Lucy's disappearance soon became complicated by inconsistencies in her mother's statements. Initially, Yong Meadows stated that Lucy was out of her sight for only a few seconds, but later changed the timeframe to ten to fifteen minutes. Further questions arose when it was reported that Yong had given conflicting accounts of which mall Lucy had disappeared from. These inconsistencies led investigators to doubt whether Lucy was ever at the Rivergate Mall on the day she was reported missing. The family dynamics also came under scrutiny, as Lucy's parents were experiencing marital problems and filed for divorce a month after she vanished. Lucy's father, Tom Meadows, has remained actively involved in the search for his daughter. Years later, a significant development emerged when a witness came forward in 2004 with a disturbing account. This individual, who was a child at the time of Lucy's disappearance, claimed to have seen Lucy at her parents' home the night before she was reported missing, appearing lifeless while adults, including her mother, were in a state of panic around her. This witness passed a polygraph test, and investigators found their story credible. In contrast, Lucy's mother reportedly failed two polygraph examinations regarding her daughter's disappearance and has been described as uncooperative with the investigation. Despite these troubling details and potential leads, including the sighting of a brown or champagne-colored minivan in the mall parking lot around the time Lucy was said to have disappeared, no suspects have ever been officially named. The case remains classified as a non-family abduction, and the search for answers into what happened to young Lucy Meadows continues.

Jul 25, 1995

Goodlettsville

Tennessee

Davidson County

No

26194

Goodlettsville Police Department

Goodlettsville

Tennessee

Davidson County

37072

105 South Main Street, Tennessee

6158593405

Local

Law Enforcement

96-11457

1996-07-25

Goodlettsville Police Department

Brown

Brown

Brown

06/19/2026