KY KY - Jane Bousley, 70, Winchester, 19 Oct 2001

Jane M. Bousley was last seen Oct. 19, 2001 at Angie’s Hair Design. According to the report Bousley, then 70, left the beauty shop and may have headed toward Walmart or Lowe’s in her 1997 silver Mercury Tracer, license plate number 157-BXR.

Bousley has black hair, brown eyes and wears glasses. According to the report, she has multiple scars on her chest, scalp and abdomen.

Detectives with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office investigated the disappearance thoroughly, but no trace was ever found of Bousley or her car, a silver Mercury Tracer.



http://www.winchestersun.com/2017/09/04/local-law-enforcement-opens-up-on-missing-persons-cases/
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/bousley_jane.html
https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/2847/1616

Wal-Mart and Lowe's here in Winchester both have security cameras. It would have been a simple matter for law enforcement officers to ask to see the footage; I'd bet they didn't bother.

There is a Reddit thread on this case that gives some useful backstory information.

Jane M. Bousley​

Bousley, circa 2001; 1997 Mercury Tracer

• Missing Since 10/19/2001
• Missing From Winchester, Kentucky
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 08/27/1931 (90)
• Age 70 years old
• Height and Weight 5'4, 125 - 140 pounds
• Medical Conditions Bousley has had a mitral valve replacement. She has previously had two strokes and she is susceptible to blood clots. She may be confused and disoriented due to her conditions.
• Associated Vehicle(s) Silver 1997 Mercury Tracer with the Kentucky license plate number 157-BXR
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Black hair, brown eyes. Bousley wears eyeglasses. She has had a bilateral mastectomy, but no implants. She has scars on her chest from open heart surgery to implant a mechanical heart valve. She had a sternotomy for the surgery. She also has scars on her scalp from a craniotomy, with four burr holes and a bone flap.

Details of Disappearance​

Bousley was last seen at Angie's Hair Design in Winchester, Kentucky on October 19, 2001. She went to the salon to get her hair done; the hairdresser said she seemed distracted and forgot to remove her gloves after she arrived. She may have been en route to Wal-Mart or Lowe's when she left. She has never been heard from again.

Bousley may be driving a silver 1997 Mercury Tracer with the Kentucky license plate number 157-BXR. A photo of the car is posted with this case summary. She lived on Ironworks Road at the time of her disappearance. Her case remains unsolved.

Jane M. Bousley – The Charley Project

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

April 5, 2022

Does anyone local know of any ponds, rivers, etc nearby? My first thought is she had lots of medical conditions and wasn't acting normal. She may have drove into water. He car hasn't been recovered.

Jane Bousley disappeared in October 2001. She was last seen leaving a Clark County hair salon in a silver sedan. Searches in the decades since have never turned up any clues.

Graham Barrineau and Brian Hutton volunteer their time as divers to search for missing people. Their organization is called "Diving for Hope". They spent Friday in the murky Kentucky River.

"Our main mission is just to bring closure to families and bring people back home that's missing," Barrineau said.

Barrineau said family members told them Bousley had gotten lost along the Kentucky River once before, and they thought maybe it had happened again, and perhaps she'd crashed into the river. That's why they ran their SONAR equipment through the water.

"We dropped down in the first spot and got a SONAR ping on a vehicle," he said.

It's promising, but that's where the hard work really starts.

"Today's conditions were pretty rough. Water temperature is a little under 40 degrees. It's 39, or right at 40. Very cold. We have dry suits to keep ourselves warm. Another big thing right now is it's pretty muddy. There's no visibility whatsoever there at the bottom where we did locate that vehicle. Everything was by feel. Couldn't see your own hand in front of your face, just pitch black darkness," Barrineau said.

"We're going to try to come back when the water level's lower, little bit warmer, current is down. Hopefully we'll recover the vehicle and bring it out of the water and bring Jane back home," Barrineau said

On Oct. 19,
Diving with Hope, out of Corbin, hopes to crack the cold case. On Feb. 16, Diving with Hope announced on Facebook that their divers would be searching the Kentucky River near Winchester to answer the question: “What happened to Jane?”

“We firmly believe that every missing person deserves to be found, and that’s why we are dedicating our time, skills, and resources to bring some closure to this heartbreaking case,” Diving with Hope said on Facebook. “Our highly trained divers will be conducting a search operation in Winchester, KY this morning, focusing on specific areas where Jane was last seen. We are determined to leave no stone unturned in our quest to find her and reunite her with her family.”