Missing
Linda Sue Nickell
Nickell, approximately 1976
Date and time person was reported missing : 02/02/1976
Missing location (approx) :
Flint, Michigan
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 09/17/1955 (65)
Age at the time of disappearance: 20 years old
Height / Weight : 5'4, 130 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A red top, blue jeans and a maroon jacket.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Blonde/red hair, green eyes. Nickell previously fractured her right arm in a car crash; the injury had healed by the time of her disappearance. Three of her teeth have been extracted.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Nickell was last seen walking from her home on Davison Road to a bar at the corner of Davison and Avalon Road in Flint, Michigan on February 2, 1976. She was on the way to a neighborhood bar, The Thrift City, and said she planned to call a friend from the establishment's pay phone once she got there. She has never been heard from again
Nickell's loved ones were not initially alarmed when she did not return home; they assumed she was at her friend's house. When three days passed without contact, however, her sister contacted police.
According to her sister, Nickell dropped out of high school in the eleventh grade and used drugs recreationally in 1976. Her sister described Nickell as a "flower child" and "too trusting." Both of their parents were alcoholics and the girls grew up in very poor circumstances, in a home without running water.
Nickell left home as a teenAge at the time of disappearance: r and stayed with several relatives after that, the last ones being her sister and brother-in-law.
Her father, who was allegedly physically abusive towards his family, is considered a possible suspect in her disappearance. Authorities searched his property with cadaver dogs in 2003, but found no evidence. Nickell's father died in the 1990s and was never charged in his daughter's case; it has not been established that he was involved.
Nickell is a former employee of the Red Ribbon Bar and Town and Country Lanes, both situated in Flint. She has been known to hitchhike between Flint, Whittemore, and Tawas, Michigan. Foul play is suspected in her case, which remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Michigan State Police
East Tawas Post
989-362-3434
September 2021 updates and sources
The Doe Network
WJRT-TV
The Flint Journal
October 12, 2004. April 11, 2011; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
