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Lexington police digging into 40 year old mystery

By Valarie Honeycutt Spears, Lexington Herald-Leader

Lexington police have renewed their search for the body of Melanie Flynn, a Lexington woman from a prominent family who has been missing since 1977 and whose disappearance has been one of the city's most enduring mysteries, Lt. Albert Johnson said. The people thought to be involved in her disappearance "had influence, they were powerful, there was money," said Johnson, who heads the homicide unit for Lexington police.

The case figured in a book called The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story about Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder published nearly 30 years ago. It was also written about in a 1989 Herald-Leader series called "Birds of a Feather" about former local law enforcement officers and others in Central Kentucky who fell into the drug trade.

Lexington and Kentucky State Police officers were at Murphy's Landing on the banks of the Kentucky River in Mercer County last Friday searching for possible evidence in the Melanie Flynn case.

Read more at kentucky.com




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