Christopher Lee Cessna was 45 years old when he went missing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in April 2011. Cessna was living in Cary, North Carolina, at the time. His disappearance was initially reported to the Cary Police Department after his family noticed he had been out of contact. Cessna’s 2009 Audi was…
Missing in the Smokies: Derek Lueking
Derek Lueking went missing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in March 2012.. Lueking’s car was found parked in the lower lot of Newfound Gap, on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. At the time he went missing, Lueking was wearing black track pants and white tennis shoes. He may have had a…
Missing in the Smokies: Teresa “Trenny” Lynn Gibson
On October 8, 1976, Teresa “Trenny” Lynn Gibson went missing while on a field trip with Bearden High School. Gibson was only 16 years old at the time, when she and her classmates were hiking near Andrews Bald trail to the Clingmans Dome parking area. No one on the trip remembers seeing her after 3:00…