Silver Alert KS - Wanda Dyer, 74, Lawrence, 21 March 2025

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Police still searching for 74-year-old woman who has been missing a week

Police are still searching for a 74-year-old Lawrence woman who has been missing for a week. On Thursday they posted updated photos of Wanda Dyer to social media noting that her clothes were slightly different than initially described. “Please note the differences in clothing and appearance than...

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Dyer is a 5-foot-2 African American woman with short gray hair.

She was last seen by family leaving her home around 8 a.m. March 21 on foot, near Fifth and California streets, according to a social media post by police, and the department announced in a release Tuesday evening that she may have been seen heading out of the Lawrence area. A Silver Alert has been issued for her, city bus operators have been given her picture to distribute, and officers have searched parks and made multiple visits to places she is known to frequent.

Dyer suffers from confusion and memory issues, according to her family.

Police believe she was wearing a black coat with pink lining, or possibly a hoodie, and multicolored pants.

photo by: Courtesy of Lawrence Police Department

 

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Silver Alert: Elderly Wanda Dyer missing from Lawrence, KS - urgent search expanded Silver Alert Wanda Dyer 📍 Location: Lawrence, KS 📅 Last Seen: March 21, 2025 👤 Age: 74 📏 Height: 5'2" • Wanda Dyer...

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Group forming to ‘Bring Wanda home’; Lawrence woman, 74, has been missing for a week

Lawrence community members are coming together to bring Wanda Dyer home. She's late to celebrate her 46th wedding anniversary.

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Lawrence community members are coming together to bring Wanda Dyer home. She’s late to celebrate her 46th wedding anniversary.

Dave Dyer, Wanda’s husband, said Lawrence police have told him to wait at the couple’s home in case she shows up there.

She’s slight, at 5-foot-2 and 117 pounds. She’s stayed in good shape, and she loves to walk, Dave said.

But “She’s suffering from dementia. It’s suddenly gotten a lot worse over the last couple of months,” Dave said. “… It’s turned into a horror show.”

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When Wanda went to the bank Friday morning with no ID or debit card, the bank wouldn’t give her any money, he said. Later that day, she was seen on East 1500 Road, walking toward Eudora.

Dave said Wanda may have been seen arguing with two men in front of Chipotle in downtown Lawrence two or three days ago. Previously, that would’ve been out of character for her.

 

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The Lawrence Police Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing elderly Kansas woman after receiving new information into her whereabouts.

Since the alert was first issued, police have received new information suggesting Dyer may have been seen leaving out of the Lawrence area causing police to expand their search efforts.

Police say they have searched parks, shared Dyer’s photo with city bus drivers, and visited places Dyer has been known to frequent as part of their search efforts.

 

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Lawrence community organizes search party, asks for help locating missing 74-year-old woman

At the heart of a community-led search for missing 74-year-old Wanda Dyer are two women with a mission: to bring Dyer home.

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Jill Ihde, of Lawrence, and Rochelle Edwards, of Leavenworth, are admins of the Bring Wanda Home Facebook group. Since Friday, they said the group has grown from 50 members to 1,000, and community members are constantly messaging them to help find Dyer.

KSHB 41's Lawrence beat reporter Lily O'Shea Becker spoke with Edwards and Ihde over the phone Tuesday afternoon as Ihde was searching remote roads in Eudora.

It is believed Dyer could've set out on foot toward Eudora or Kansas City, according to KBI.

Edwards said Dyer has a family member in Kansas City, where she grew up.

 

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From LE FB 2/ 22/25
UPDATE: Wanda was located and is safe. Thanks everyone for keeping an eye out. We’ve now removed her picture.
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Lawrence Police need your help locating Wanda Dyer, pictured here. Wanda is 74 years old and was last seen leaving her home, on foot, near 5th Street and California Street at 1:30 this morning. Wanda is 5'2", and was wearing a black hooded coat, gloves, and blue jeans, and she was pushing a folding grocery cart. If you have any information on her location, contact dispatch at (785)843-0250

So she has wondered off before. I wonder where she was located?

 

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From LE FB 2/ 22/25
UPDATE: Wanda was located and is safe. Thanks everyone for keeping an eye out. We’ve now removed her picture.
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Lawrence Police need your help locating Wanda Dyer, pictured here. Wanda is 74 years old and was last seen leaving her home, on foot, near 5th Street and California Street at 1:30 this morning. Wanda is 5'2", and was wearing a black hooded coat, gloves, and blue jeans, and she was pushing a folding grocery cart. If you have any information on her location, contact dispatch at (785)843-0250

So she has wondered off before. I wonder where she was located?

Yes, it appears she went missing on Feb 22 and was located that same day. It doesn’t state where they found her. IMO, she has made her way farther this time.

Praying she is found safe soon.

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Dyer also reportedly went missing Feb. 22, according to police, but she was found the same day.

Police still searching for 74-year-old woman who has been missing a week

Police are still searching for a 74-year-old Lawrence woman who has been missing for a week. On Thursday they posted updated photos of Wanda Dyer to social media noting that her clothes were slightly different than initially described. “Please note the differences in clothing and appearance than...

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Edwards and others are working to coordinate search parties with EquuSearch Midwest, a group of volunteer specialists who work with law enforcement to find missing people.

“We just want to find her. She has been missing way too long,” Edwards said.

 

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Search continues for Lawrence woman, 74, missing almost 2 weeks

Wanda Dyer, 74, has been missing for almost two weeks. Her husband of 46 years has a couple of requests for the community, and folks are organizing a search coming up this weekend.

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April 2 2025

Wanda Dyer, 74, has been missing for almost two weeks. Her husband of 46 years has a couple of requests for the community.

Dave Dyer said Wednesday that he’s barely slept since Wanda has been gone — since Friday morning, March 21.

Edwards and others have also worked to compile a timeline of reported sightings of Wanda to the best of their ability. Only a few sightings have been confirmed with photo or video proof.


Included at the link above is a map and timeline of reported sightings of Wanda, according to the latest updates from Dave and the folks organizing the search. Sightings confirmed with video or photo proof are noted on the map; others are unconfirmed.

 

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Third coordinated search planned to look for Lawrence woman missing almost 3 weeks

Wanda Dyer, 74, has now been missing from her Lawrence home for almost three weeks. A community-organized search is coming up in the area where Wanda was last photographed.

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Wanda Dyer, 74, has now been missing from her Lawrence home for almost three weeks. A community-organized search is coming up in the area where Wanda was last photographed.

The last confirmed sighting of Wanda with photo proof was around 7:15 p.m. Friday, March 21 in Eudora. She may have been seen as recently as Friday, March 28, also in Eudora.

The next search will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 12 at Lucy Kaegi Park, 1638 Elm St. in Eudora.

 

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Search for missing Lawrence woman canceled; no confirmed sightings since March 21

A coordinated search for a Lawrence woman now missing for three weeks has been canceled, but Wanda Dyer's family and search organizers ask people to please keep looking for her.

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A coordinated search for a Lawrence woman now missing for three weeks has been canceled, but her family and search organizers ask people to please keep looking for her.

 

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'It’s like a nightmare': 1 month since 74-year-old Lawrence woman was last seen, family speaks out

Family members say they believe Wanda Dyer was headed east to Kansas City, Missouri, where her and her family have a history of residing.

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Efforts to locate Wanda Dyer, a missing 74-year-old woman, span from Lawrence, Kansas, to Kansas City, Missouri.

Both LKPD and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation say it's possible she was heading as far east as Kansas City.

Wanda Dyer's family believes she was heading east to Kansas City, where both she and her family have a history of residing. She grew up in the 3500 block of Askew Avenue, worked at the downtown branch of the Kansas City Public Library, and attended Redemptorist School in Kansas City's Midtown before it closed, according to David Dyer.

 

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Lawrence woman still missing after almost 11 weeks

She went missing for a few hours back in February, but it turned out that she was staying the night at their daughter’s house.


Friends launched a Facebook group, “Bring Wanda home,” on March 27 to plan searches and share updates. As of Wednesday, the group had almost 2,000 members.

Searches are paused but will be reactivated if there’s a positive sighting, Dave said.

Fennelly said the missing person case is still active and LPD continues to follow leads.

Wanda is 5-foot-2 and 117 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black coat with pink lining and blue, patterned pants. She was carrying a black backpack. She usually wears a blue surgical mask when she’s out.

If you see Wanda, call 911 immediately. If you have other information about Wanda’s location, call the nonemergency dispatch line at 785-843-0250.

It’s important to approach calmly if making contact. Dave recommended trying to converse with her about books because she loves libraries and had worked at the University of Kansas’ Watson Library for 30 years.