I actually have a few of these cases but the one that happened close to me is Patty Adkins who was been missing for almost 23 years.

The reason it sticks with me is because it's near-ish to where I live. I'm close enough to the city where it happened to shop there occasionally. There's also an Italian ice shop and I've taken my family there multiple times. I have a few friends who live that way. I don't go there much because it is a bit of a drive but I go there enough to have a sense of the city and when I learned about this crime I was surprised that it happened there.

I attached the news article from the Dispatch about it. It was also featured on Disappeared, Secret Rendezvous, Season 3, Episode 2, if you are interested in watching that. The case has been covered by WebSleuths, fearured on Dateline, and many YouTube creators have explored what could have happened to Patty Adkins.

Marysville is a rural kind of area, it's in central Ohio but it's pretty far from Columbus. The community was for many years mainly farming.

Patty Adkins worked at the Honda plant which employs many local people and has for years. She was a single mom raising a beautiful little daughter. Patty was seeing a coworker who was married but she herself was single at the time the relationship began. I'm not sure if she knew at first that her boyfriend was married but eventually she did find out but continued seeing him. Also he was not the father of her baby girl.

According to the information, the boyfriend is the last person to see her alive and her friends and family have suspicions that he is involved in her disappearance. His name is Brian Flowers and she was supposed to go on vacation with him to Canada over July 4th in 2001.

The Union County Sheriff's office has released a PDF about her and there is an active Facebook group dedicated to finding justice for Patty. According to the Facebook page, Patty was recently declared deceased, but her friends and family hope that one day the case will be heard by a grand jury to see if charges could be brought forth.

What cases stick with you and why?

TBH I also have a pull towards the Danielle Imbo cass which I think might have some similarities to this one.