It has been seven years since a woman who lived just outside of Wolfe City apparently walked away from her home, never to be seen again.
The 2007 disappearance of Lisa Chandler remains one of the more baffling mysteries in Hunt County, because no evidence has surfaced indicating what happened to her.
“This is still an open investigation,” said Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks. “No new leads have developed since last year. However, we are still hunting for clues that will lead us to Lisa.”
In the past few years Meeks has twice sent investigators to Louisiana to interview a possible suspect in the disappearance, with no success. Meeks said items Chandler would normally take with her, if she planned to be away for any length of time, were still in her home.
Chandler’s family has posted a $1,000 reward for information about Chandler, who was believed to have disappeared from her home on State Highway 34 North on the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 23, 2007.
Her family was unable to reach her when they tried to call her the next day. The door to her home was found unlocked and the windows open.
Authorities have theorized Chandler may have begun walking south along Highway 34 toward Greenville from her residence and may have been picked up by a passing motorist.
Sheriff’s investigators were able to track Chandler’s scent with bloodhounds five miles along the highway before the trail ended.
In March 2009 detectives with the sheriff’s office conducted a search of the bridge across Brushy Branch Creek, about three-fourths of a mile south of Chandler’s home, based on a tip which had been phoned in.
Items, including a bone, were recovered from the location, although tests revealed none of the items belonged to Chandler and the bone was not human.
Chandler remains featured on several Internet missing person sites.
“I pray for her family and that we will be able to find her or at least find out what happen to her,” Meeks said. “This a mystery that needs to be solved. We are not giving up.”
Anyone with any information concerning Chandler’s whereabouts is being asked to contact the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office at 903-453-6800 or Hunt County Crime Stoppers at 903-457-2929.