Donna Gail Hatfield

• Missing Since 05/25/2019
• Missing From Boonville, Indiana
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 04/18/1947 (78)
• Age 72 years old
• Height and Weight 5'4, 125 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description Unknown, but she likes to wear the colors red and white.
• Medical Conditions Hatfield suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and needs medication which she doesn't have with her.
• Distinguishing Characteristics White female. Graying brown hair, hazel eyes. Hatfield's previous married name was Rainey. She wears eyeglasses.

Details of Disappearance

Hatfield was last known to be living with her son, Thomas R. Rainey Jr., in the 600 block of North First Street in Boonville, Indiana. A friend saw her on May 25, 2019, and her ex-husband believes he saw her on June 13, but this date hasn't been confirmed because he suffers from memory loss.

In August that year, Rainey told his father, Hatfield's ex-husband, that she had had an aneurysm and died in the hospital. When Hatfield's daughters called the hospital, though, they learned that there was no one in the morgue under that name. They checked with all the other hospitals in the area and Hatfield wasn't there either.

They subsequently discovered Rainey had not taken her to the hospital, and he told several different stories about what happened to her. He told neighbors he had placed Hatfield in a nursing home, and told other people she had died in June.

Hatfield's daughter, Rachel Arnold, said that she went to Rainey and became emotional about her mother's reported death, at which point Rainey said Hatfield was alive. He said an old friend had picked her up and she left with him, taking a suitcase and a large amount of money, and she was happy and wanted to be left alone. Later, he said he didn't know where she was.

Arnold stated her mother had given her house to Rainey in exchange for him taking care of her, and that he loved her, but her Alzheimer's was getting worse and she was refusing to eat. Arnold had offered to place her in a nursing home, but Rainey had refused.

In August 2019, when reporters from a local news outlet spoke to Rainey, he said his mother wasn't at home, but that she wasn't missing and was being looked after. Her identification, clothing and medication were left behind when she disappeared.

In August 2023, Rainey was arrested on felony charges of forgery and fraud for allegedly selling his mother's car and forging her signature on the documents. He produced a signed and notarized power of attorney document, dated June 19, 2015, listing Rainey as Hatfield's legal representative, and argued he had right to dispose of her property. Months later, the charges against him were dismissed.

Two years later, in August 2025, Rainey filed a lawsuit against the Boonville Police Department and the city of Boonville, alleging his arrest had been an unlawful attempt to get information out of him, and that the police had subjected him to "intense humiliation and ostracization from the community" after Hatfield went missing. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for Rainey's "pain, suffering and humiliation" as well as punitive damages.

Hatfield enjoys going for walks. She has wandered away from home in the past, but would always be found safe in the immediate area. There has been no activity on her bank records or other records since her disappearance. Arnold believes her mother is dead and that her brother knows what happened to her. The police stated there is no evidence Hatfield is still alive, but they are not sure what happened to her. Rainey is considered a person of interest in Hatfield's case, but hasn't been called a suspect. Her case remains unsolved.