KY KY - Zola H Combs, 39, Hazard, 18 Jan 1996

[Romulus]

Missing Person / NamUs #MP9912
Zola H Combs, Female, White / Caucasian
Date of Last Contact: January 18, 1996
Missing From: Hazard, Kentucky
Missing Age: 39 Years

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Circumstances of Disappearance: victim was the operator of a vehicle that wrecked into a creek.

 

[MadMcGoo]

The Messenger 19 Jan 1996, page 1 - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from The Messenger dated 19 Jan 1996, page 1.

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Zola Hicks, Born: January 31, 1956

Her husband was murdered just 5 years before she had her accident.

14 Jan 1991, Page 6 - The Courier-Journal at Newspapers.com

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[MadMcGoo]

These are the only remains I have listed for Perry County: UNSOLVED - KY - Perry Co, near Hazard, Skeletal in a Wooded Area Near a Home, Nov'19

Can anyone more familiar with the area, or directions/maps in general, pinpoint exactly where she went into the creek?

 

[bflocket]

This is a map of where Troublesome Creek runs next to KY-550 (it does so for quite a while). I had to do "walking/hiking" directions because it kept wanting to go via KY-80 the story says KY-550 (which is "old KY-80"). Bulan is near the far left side of the path.

Troublesome Creek dumps into The North Fork Kentucky River not far south of Jackson, which is mentioned in that article, but it would be a ridiculous distance for a car to be swept. Floods get concentrated in hollows/valleys in that area, but there are many more-or-less hairpin curves in the creek and it's just as wiggly as an old mountain road. Maybe Jackson was a semi-close point of reference since the paper is from the other side of the state and there aren't many big towns in the area.

I am assuming due to the "Hazard" reference that this happened in Perry County, so that would be between the left end of the dots to the top of the first big upward hump (for lack of a better term).

KY-550 to KY-160

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