TN TN - Veda Powers, 29, Nashville, 26 May 1982

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Name: Veda Lou Powers
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: May 26, 1982
Location Last Seen: Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
Physical Description
Date of Birth: May 1, 1953
Age: 29 years old
Race: Black/African American
Gender: Female
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 110 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Identifiers
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Glasses
Circumstances of Disappearance
Veda Powers lived at 917 9th Avenue, South, in Nashville. Her car was located one block from her house and foul play is suspected.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Metro Nashville Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Detective Steven Jolley
Agency Phone Number: 615-862-7843
Agency Contact Person: Detective Curtis Hafley
Agency Phone Number: 615-862-7366
Agency E-Mail: missing_persons@police.nashville.org
Agency Case Number: 82-089868
NCIC Case Number: M-101076067
NamUs Case Number: 14
Information Source(s)
NamUs
Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
North American Missing Persons Network

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/14/628/
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/25dftn.html
 
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https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/14/
 
From charleyproject

  • Missing Since05/26/1982
  • Missing FromNashville, Tennessee
  • ClassificationEndangered Missing
  • Date of Birth05/01/1953 (65)
  • Age29 years old
  • Height and Weight5'4, 110 pounds
  • Distinguishing CharacteristicsAfrican-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Powers wears eyeglasses and she cannot see without them. They were left behind.
Details of Disappearance
Powers was last seen in Nashville, Tennessee on May 26, 1982. That morning, as per her usual routine, she left residence in the 900 block of 9th Avenue south, dropped her children off at day care, picked up her sister at Buena Vista Apartments and took her to her job at the Continental Insurance Office off Murfreesboro Road.

Powers told her sister she had taken the day off from her own job at St. Thomas Hospital and was going home to bed. She has never been heard from again; her sister was last person to see her.

Two days after Powers's disappearance, her orange 1975 Chevrolet Monza was found abandoned on 14th Avenue south near Edgehill Avenue, several blocks from her home. Her eyeglasses were in the backseat.

Powers left behind two children, and she's described as a reliabled employee and devoted parent who was very close to her family. Authorities believe she may have been taken against her will. Foul play is suspected in Powers's case. She was declared legally dead seven years after her disappearance, and her mother raised her children.

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Bump. I hope her co workers can speak to lS enforcement about what she might have shared with them but kept secret from her family...
 

Forty years ago, a mother vanished from Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Police Department has a person of interest in her disappearance, and authorities hope someone remembers information in her case.
 

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Veda Lou Powers vanished from Nashville on May 26, 1982.

Per her daily morning routine, Powers had left her residence at 917 9th Avenue South to drop her children off at daycare and pick up her sister to take her to work.

Powers told her sister she had taken the day off and was going back home to bed. However, she was never seen or heard from again. Two days later, police found her orange 1975 Chevrolet Monza abandoned several blocks from her home on 14th Avenue South near Edgehill Avenue.

Her eyeglasses were in the backseat, leading police to believe that foul play was involved since Powers had very poor eyesight.
 
May 26, 2023
WKRN News 2

Powers was 29 years old when she vanished on May 26, 1982, leaving behind two young daughters. Her disappearance has largely been shrouded in mystery, but despite tips running dry for several years, investigators are still looking for a break in the case.

 

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