GA GA - Becky Minish, 19, Augusta, 17 March 1987

[PuzzlePieceHope]

Does anyone remember her seeing a guy named Perry or as some people knew him, Bubba?

 

[spartanx]

inexcusable, poor police work. I don't think this was an ex boyfriend. I think this was a stranger. What I want to know is this-how was the steering column smashed, I mean with what and how was the car door pried open? Was her job near an isolated area? Because prying a car door open is no mean feat. It would take time and passersby would notice that.

You stole my words as is ... inoperative police but how nobody saw anything?

 

[Melt71]

If it was a stranger abduction and Becky was whisked away, the timing might match this UID recently entered in Namus AL - AL - Heflin, WhtFem Pre-40, UP84287, Hoop Earrings, Feb '90 (websleuths.com) Namus doesn't note if Becky had pierced ears and her hair is listed as blonde, but since the UID description says hair showed varying shades of brown its not clear to me if this could be discolouration/weathering and it could have started as blonde.

 

[Rphi006]

Has anyone looked into if Becky could be #UP4778?
The weight could be off because of potentially being held captive. Height seems not definite, 5'9-5'11 in missing, unidentified is 5'4-5'7. I see a lot of similarities in the smile in the artist rendering and her actual photo.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Becky Annette Minish – The Charley Project

 

[mlhenn]

Becky Annette Minish – The Charley Project

Updated November 2025

Details of Disappearance​

Minish was last seen after she left her job at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on Wrightsboro Road in Augusta, Georgia on March 17, 1987. Following work she left her parents home where she lived in Evans, Georgia and went to visit a friend, Jon Oates, in Richmond County, Georgia and never returned.

Oates is the last person known to have seen her; he said she left to go to a motel to meet a friend. She didn't say which motel or which friend, only that this friend drove a Mercedes. She was supposed to return later but never did. She has never been heard from again.

The police later contacted motels in Richmond County and Columbia County and only one person registered at any of them on March 17 drove a Mercedes, a man with an address in Jacksonville, Florida. When they searched Minishe's belongings left behind at her parents' home where she lived in Evans, Georgia, they found a scrap of paper with an address in suburban Jacksonville, but no name. The address turned out to be nonexistent.

Her red 1985 Chrysler LeBaron with the Georgia license plate number JHL 941 was found on March 24 at the Wrightsboro Road exit of the Bobby Jones Expressway. One of its tires was flat, the gas tank was almost full, the door had been pried open, the steering column was smashed and the starter switch was ripped up, enabling the car to start without key. The stereo and spare tire were left untouch. There was no sign of Minish at the scene.

It's uncharacteristic of Minish to leave without warning, and she never picked up her last paycheck or sent anyone to get it for her. She also left all her belongings behind, including her medication, and both Oates and her parents don't think she would have done that. Her parents said that previously she had occasionally stayed away from home overnight, she would get in touch with her parents within a day to let them know where she was.

Foul play is suspected in her case; she's presumed to have been the victim of a homicide.