Clay, Kentucky. It was August 26th, 1995, and 23-year-old Heather Teague decided to head over to Newburgh Beach in Kentucky, which wasn’t far from her home in Clay.
She set up her lounge chair and sat back to relax while sunbathing in her red plaid bathing suit.
In the early hours of that afternoon, a man was sitting on the opposite side of the shore that Heather was on.
He was watching the beach, and he witnessed something horrific happen to Heather as he looked through his telescope.
Facebook; Heather is pictured above
The man with the telescope would later tell authorities that he witnessed a shirtless bearded man dressed in a mosquito net, a wig, and jeans come up to Heather.
He was around 6 feet tall and weighed approximately 210 or 230 pounds.
All of a sudden, the wig-wearing man held a gun to Heather’s head and yanked her off her chair by her hair.
He then dragged her off into the woods that sit right behind the beach.
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This happened at 12:45, but the man with the telescope waited a bit to contact 911, later saying that he thought perhaps the man was Heather’s boyfriend just playing a joke on her.
When authorities came out to Newburgh Beach, there was no sign of Heather, but they did find pieces of the red plaid bathing suit she had been wearing close to where she was last seen.
Authorities also apparently discovered a few more pieces of evidence that they have not made public, but none of those things have answered the question of where Heather was taken.
While investigating Heather’s disappearance, authorities spoke to a farmer who was out with a camera that day, just down the street from the beach. He was trying to catch who was responsible for destroying local crops on video.
That farmer did catch something interesting with his camera…a red and white-colored Ford Bronco parked right alongside the car that Heather drove.
Facebook; Heather smiles in the photo above
Using that information, investigators narrowed in on a suspect; Marvin Ray Dill, who also went by the name Marty.
Marvin drove the exact car that was seen next to Heather’s went she went missing. He had a criminal record. And when authorities pulled him over for a traffic stop in his Bronco, he had some eery items inside.
A rope, two knives, rubber gloves, two guns, duct tape, and a strand of hair that looked like it belonged to Heather were all found inside of Marvin’s Bronco.
Drops of blood dotted the inside of the Bronco’s tailgate.
It certainly seemed like Marvin was a strong suspect, and following the traffic stop quite a few tips came in to police that left them thinking it had to be him.
So, they made a plan to go over to Marvin’s house and ask him some questions about Heather’s case.
As the police arrived at Marvin’s house, he told his wife to get out of there and he took his own life. Marvin died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Was Marvin guilty of kidnapping Heather? Did he tell his wife what happened?
Interestingly enough, authorities put together all the evidence they had that implicated Marvin, and when his wife was called to the witness stand in court, she wasted no time in invoking her Fifth Amendment rights.
She absolutely wouldn’t reply when questioned about what happened to Heather. In the years since, she has continued her silence.
While Marvin appears to be the prime suspect in Heather’s disappearance, there is another man that could have taken her…though he has never been charged.
Facebook; Heather is pictured above in another photo
Christopher J. Below is currently behind bars after confessing in 2003 to murdering 26-year-old Kathern Fetzer, who he claims to have shot. Kathern’s body has never been recovered, and she disappeared from Medina, Ohio on November 26th, 1991.
Kathern’s case is similar to Heather’s, and she lived relatively close by. Kathern and Heather both had beautiful, long, dark-colored hair. They both were around 5 feet tall and weighed approximately 100 pounds.
They both vanished into thin air within months of one another, never to be heard from again.
In 2007, Heather’s mom Sarah Teague had Heather declared dead so she could get access to the file the FBI had on Heather’s case.
In 2013, Sarah moved forward with filing a lawsuit against Kentucky authorities, claiming they somehow covered up what really happened to Heather. To this day, the lawsuit is still ongoing.
26 years have gone by, and there is still no closure for Heather’s family. She has not been found, but it’s believed she is no longer alive.
If you have any information regarding Heather’s disappearance, you can contact the Kentucky State Police at 270-826-3312.
