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Michele Jolene Lakey, an 11-year-old Caucasian girl from Scranton, Pennsylvania, vanished on August 26, 1986, while walking home after visiting her mother at Mercy Hospital. She was last seen speaking to a friend at the corner of Myrtle Street and North Washington Avenue, but she never made it to her home on the 1300 block of North Washington. Her disappearance has remained one of Scranton’s most haunting unsolved cases, leaving her family searching for answers for decades.

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Victim Details

Michele Jolene Lakey

Female

White / Caucasian

Scranton

PA

1986

11

Michele

Jolene Lakey

11/10/2025