Patricia Meehan
- Sarah Turney
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
The disappearance of Patricia Meehan on the Voices for Justice Podcast.
Listen now on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/patricia-meehan/id1469338483?i=1000740932105
On the night of April 20, 1989, a desolate stretch of highway near Circle, Montana, was plunged into chaos. After a head-on collision, Patricia Meehan emerged from the wreckage, dazed but seemingly unharmed. She was not frantic or crying for help. Instead, she was unnervingly silent.
Patricia then climbed a fence, watched the aftermath for a moment, and walked away into the Montana night, sparking a decades-long mystery fueled by thousands of sightings across the country.
Anyone with information is asked to call the McCone County Sheriff’s Office at 406-485-3405.
Sources:
"Accident victim sighted in Washington." Great Falls Tribune, 13 June 1989.
"Amnesia victim still missing." The Billings Gazette, 9 Aug. 1989.
Associated Press. "Couple searches for amnesia-stricken daughter." The News Tribune, 11 June 1989.
Baty, Don. "Parents scour I-90 for missing daughter." The Missoulian, 9 June 1989, p. 1.
"Disappearance of Patricia Meehan." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Patricia_Meehan. Accessed 10 Dec. 2025.
"Is She Or Isn't She Patricia Meehan?" The Seattle Times, 2 Sept. 1990.
"Jailed Transient Not Long-Sought Woman." The Seattle Times, 4 Sept. 1990.
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"Missing Persons Look Like 'Unsolved Mysteries.'" Sun News, 24 Nov. 1994.
"Patricia Bernadette Meehan." The Charley Project, 20 May 2019, www.charleyproject.org/case/patricia-bernadette-meehan.
"Patricia Meehan." Unsolved Mysteries, 2025, unsolved.com/gallery/patricia-meehan/.
"Relatives seek traces of lost accident victim." Rapid City Journal, 31 May 1989, p. C-1.
Sundby, Jill. "Missing woman tracked on I-90." Billings Gazette, 2 June 1989, p. D1.
Unsolved Mysteries. Season 2, episode 6, NBC, 1 Nov. 1989. YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx. (Video transcript titled "Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - Season 2 Episode 6 - Full Episode" used as source material.)
