Lucy M. Buchanan

Buchanan, circa 2021

  • Missing Since 11/24/2021
  • Missing From Nashville, Tennessee
  • Classification Endangered Missing
  • Sex Female
  • Race Black
  • Age 85 years old
  • Height and Weight 5'0, 122 pounds
  • Clothing/Jewelry Description A puffy white winter coat, khaki pants, a gray toboggan-type hat and a gray scarf. Carrying her flip-type cellular phone and her keys on a lanyard.
  • Medical Conditions Buchanan was showing early signs of dementia at the time of her disappearance.
  • Distinguishing Characteristics African-American female. Gray hair, brown eyes.

Details of Disappearance

Buchanan was last seen on video surveillance images walking south in the 3100 block of Clarksville Pike in Nashville, Tennessee on November 24, 2021. Her family last spoke to her on the phone on the morning of November 29.

By that afternoon, her phone was either turned off or the battery had died, and when her family went to her apartment on Buena Vista Pike that same day to drop off some food, she wasn't there and nothing seemed to be out of place. She has never been heard from again.

Buchanan is a native of Fayetteville, Arkansas but has lived in Nashville for most of her life and was known to walk in the Buena Vista and Clarksville Pike areas. Her case remains unsolved.

Investigating Agency

  • Metropolitan Nashville Police Department 615-862-8600

Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004. Last updated June 14, 2024; casefile added.