The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
PD renews 5-year call for clues in woman’s disappearance
MIDDLETOWN — Authorities are still seeking information surrounding the disappearance of Nina Coe of Middletown, who went missing July 16, 2105.
As the first couple months passed with no word on what happened that day, when her loved ones last had contact with Coe, then 56, and police issued a Silver Alert. In 2016, calls with information dwindled to two to three times a week, and soon after, once a month, her brother Michael Plourd said at the time.
Thursday marks the fifth anniversary of Nina Coe’s disappearance.
“Nina’s family will not be gathering on the south green this year due to COVID-19,”
Middletown police posted on its Facebook page Wednesday.
“She would want us all to be safe,” the family said in a statement.
Coe, who wears eyeglasses, has a tattoo on one leg, and a scar on the right side of her neck, has brown hair and blue eyes, stands 5 feet 2 inches tall, and weighs about 130 pounds, police said in the alert. She suffers from alcohol and pain medication dependency and has mental health issues, her family has said.
“With everything that is going on in the world today, having a loved one who has gone missing makes it even more difficult. Let’s help this family find their loved one. No matter how small you think the tip may be, it doesn’t matter. It may be the one piece of the puzzle we needed to locate Nina,” the police post said.
The family held a vigil that August on the South Green.
Six months before her disappearance, Coe had gone into remission from the metastatic cancer Plourde said traveled to her lungs, thyroid and glands.
“We almost lost her. She went through hell,” her Plourd has told The Press. She had extensive chemotherapy and the doctors caught it early. But she kicked it. It was a miracle,” Plourde said. To survive that and then die ...” he trailed off.
Anyone with information is asked to call 860638-4000.