Disappearence of Young Mother Still Unsolved

Reported by:  Atish Baidya
July 21, 2009 10:53pm

Sandra Metheny has literally surrounded herself with memories of her missing granddaughter Melanie. Three years later, she’s no better than the day she learned Melanie had vanished.

“[I'm] not good,” she said. “No better than I was day one.”

A digital photo frame sits right next to a collection of other framed photos. On the opposite wall, a collection of images of her missing granddaughter. The first thing you see when you walk into Sandra’s home is a wall with a poster that reads, “Melanie Metheny is missing. July 19, 2006. Help bring her home.”

It has obsessed me,” she said. “”It is my life.”

Melanie, 21, vanished after dropping her kids off at day care. A few days later Charleston Police later found her abandoned mini-van, which now sits in Sandra’s yard.

“I’d like to have my granddaughter back,” Sandra said.

A new website is up and running in the hopes someone has a tip that will finally give the family the answers they are searching for. On it, Melanie’s mother wrote, “We’ll never quit looking until you are brought back home.”

Meanwhile, Sandra will continue searching, each exhausting day after day.

“I live it,” she said. “I live it.”