Kay Patricia Berryhill -- Missing from Ketchikan, Alaska Since 1995

Details from NamUs**: 

Kay was last seen walking into the woods with her two dogs near her home on 03/21/1995. Both dogs returned home. Despite search efforts, Kay was never located.

Missing Person: Kay Patricia Berryhill
Nicknames or aliases: Kay Marie Berryhill
Last-contact date: March 21st, 1995
The area where the MP was last seen: Ketchikan, Alaska
Link to government source: NamUs MP 

Find-a-grave memorial page: Memorial

• A missing person with a Find-a-grave memorial page would be someone that is presumed to be dead by those that knew the missing person.

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VITAL DETAILS

Ethnicity: White/Caucasian
Sex: Female
Age at time of disappearance: 36 years old
Birthdate: January 20th, 1959
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Scar: None listed
Height/weight: 5'7" and 130 pounds
BMI*: Kay Patricia Berryhill was in the normal range for BMI.
Tattoos: Kay Patricia Berryhill did not have any tattoos associated with her profiles. If you know that the missing person did have tattoos, then please post a remark at the end of this blog post on the matter.

Kay Patricia Berryhill, a possible homicide victim, was last heard from on March 21st, 1995 when she was 36 years of age. In a search for her on Ancestry, I found an address for Wrangell, Alaska. I wondered if this was where she went missing from as opposed to Ketchikan, which would be the major urban area in the part of America that Kay went missing in. There is a ferry service between Ketchikan and Wrangell. 

This individual has now been missing for about 26 years as of the original publication date of this blog post. I found a couple of details interesting in this case. Firstly, that her dogs returned home from the walk she disappeared on stood out to me. 

You do not come across many missing person profiles with that particular detail. To me, that detail indicates that she was not looking to commit suicide or disappear voluntarily. I don't think someone that had either of those kinds of plans would take their dogs with them, yet, I can't call that foolproof by any reasonable stretch.

Also, whether she went missing in Wrangell or Ketchikan, this person went missing on an island. There are only so many places she could be if she suffered something accidental or non-clandestine.

In relation to criminal possibilities with this disappearance, I found one newspaper article on this disappearance. The article mentioned Kay in relation to Wrangell, it seems to have misidentified her age, and it was published about 4 months after her disappearance. The article said that the FBI was looking for a man who was mentioned in conjunction with Kay Berryhill's disappearance. I don't know how their search for this man ended as I found no follow-up articles.

Fri, Jul 28, 1995 – Page 5 · Daily Sitka Sentinel (Sitka, Alaska) · Newspapers.com

Kay Patricia Berryhill may have had the following articles when she disappeared: black sweat pants, a black sweatshirt, a blue jacket, and brown boots. Clothing is important in old missing person cases because it can be used to match to a Jane Doe. You can look for the items listed in Jane Doe databases for presumptive matches.

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Author: Shane Lambert (UncoolNegated on Websleuths)

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Shane Lambert (UncoolNegated on Websleuths) is not a Private Investigator, however, he is currently studying to be one as of March 2021.

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*For BMI values, I use the UPPER or HIGHER ranges that are given for height and weight.
**Text might be paraphrased. If taken verbatim, then grammar or spelling errors are not necessarily corrected from original sources.
Disclaimer: Whenever possible, government sources are preferred for getting the details of a missing person's case. However, any source that the article writer deems reputable may be used

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