MISSING PERSON
CASE #: 1987-22
Margaret Chauncey
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Texarkana, Texas
Summary:
Margaret Jane Chauncey was 24 years old when she vanished from Texarkana, Texas, in 1987. She was a nurse and a mother of two. She has never been heard from again and her vehicle has not been located; her coworker reported her missing on October 22, after she missed two work shifts at St. Michael's Hospital in Texarkana, Arkansas. The case remains unsolved.
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Circumstances of Disappearance:
Chauncy was last seen in Texarkana, Texas at 11:15 p.m. on October 20, 1987. She was driving her red 1983 Pontiac Fiero with the Arkansas license plate number MXB670, and a coworker followed her to her residence. Chauncy told her coworker that she thought a large White man driving a black car had been following her. On 10/22/1987, the coworker reported Chauncey missing after she missed two work shifts at St. Michael's Hospital in Texarkana, AR. Investigators searched Chauncey's residence and found nothing disturbed. However, the victim's nurse's uniform was not in the laundry basket and her vehicle, a red Pontiac Fiero, was missing and has not been located since.
Additional Details:
At the time she went missing, Chauncy was dating a married man, and his wife had found out and vandalized Chauncy's vehicle. Authorities believe Chauncy's ex-husband, her boyfriend, or his wife may have had something to do with her disappearance. In February 2024, the group Rapid Compassion Collective decided to come to the Texarkana area after Texarkana, Texas, police asked for help in a 35-year-old missing person case. Margaret Jane Chauncy went missing in October 1987 when she got off work at the old St. Michael Hospital building in downtown Texarkana, police said. They have searched Bringle Lake already. Adventures With Purpose posted a video of AWP searching the area lakes, rivers, etc. for her vehicle. The one area they couldn't access due to time scheduling was a retaining pond on the property of a business.
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Volunteers pulled a car out of a private lake in Texarkana on Monday. It wasn't the vehicle that volunteers were hoping to find. 'We were in town searching for a lady who went missing in 1987 in a red Fiero; and her name was Margaret Chauncy,' Jeremy Sides said.
Her coworker reported her missing on October 22, after she missed two work shifts at St. Michael's Hospital in Texarkana, Arkansas.
Chauncy was last seen in Texarkana, Texas at 11:15 p.m. on October 20, 1987. She was driving her red 1983 Pontiac Fiero with the Arkansas license plate number MXB670, and a coworker followed her to her residence.
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