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Case Description
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Marlena Danyele Childress, age 4, was last seen playing in the front yard of her home in Union City, Tennessee, on April 16, 1987. Her mother, Pamela Bailey, reported hearing the screeching sound of car brakes, and when she went outside to check, Marlena had disappeared. Witnesses reported seeing Marlena talking to a man in an older model red car with Kentucky license plates shortly before she vanished, but neither the man nor the car was ever identified.
Several weeks after Marlena's d ...Read More
Last Seen: Apr 16, 1987
Several weeks after Marlena's d ...Read More
Last Seen: Apr 16, 1987
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Mar 08, 2010
Aug 06, 2020
Marlena
Childress
41
4
48 inches
38 lbs
White / Caucasian
Female
Apr 16, 1987
Union City
Tennessee
Obion County
No
286
26314
Obion County Sheriff's Office
Union City
Tennessee
Obion County
38261
1 Law Lane, Tennessee
7318855832
County
Law Enforcement
Obion County Sheriff's Office
Brown
Blue
Blue
No
11/13/2025
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Has anyone else been going down the rabbit hole on the Marlena Childress case? I recently stumbled a... ...Read More
05/22/2024
05/22/2024
