Kathy Jo Lynn Hemphill

Date of Last Contact: October 1, 2017

Location of Disappearance: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Physical Characteristics: 5′ 7″ tall, 165 pounds, 51 year old, Caucasian female. Kathy has medium-length, straight brown hair that reaches her shoulders, typically styled with 80’s feathered bangs. She has fair skin and green eyes. Kathy is known to wear eyeglasses sometimes, possibly for reading. She has a scar on the right side of her nose and another scar on the upper middle of her back. Kathy also has several tattoos, including a rose on her left breast, a bird on her upper right back, a rose and a Pegasus on her unknown calf, and the name “Joe” in an unspecified location.

Last Seen Wearing: Kathy is known to wear western-style “Rockie” jeans. She may have worn eyeglasses at times, possibly for reading. She didn’t like to wear shoes but would occasionally wear sandals or flip-flops. When she did wear tennis shoes, they were always white.

Investigating Agency: Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office

(918) 596-5601

Kathy Jo Lynn Hemphill was last seen arguing with her common-law husband outside at her home in the 5900 block of west 4th Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma sometime in October 2017. She has never been heard from again. Her car, a white 2005 Chrysler PT Cruiser with Oklahoma license plate number 113HFG, disappeared with her.

Hemphill’s friends and family repeatedly tried to contact her by phone, but her husband would always give different stories about why she could not be reached. One of her family members finally reported her missing in February 2018, telling the police that it would be uncharacteristic of Hemphill to abandon her dog and all her personal belongings. When the police questioned her husband, he said she’d gone to California, a story investigators said didn’t make any sense.

That same month, John David Lee II was spotted driving Hemphill’s car, and authorities announced they were seeking him as a witness and person of interest in Hemphill’s disappearance.

A photo of Lee is posted with this case summary. He was arrested on unrelated auto theft charges a few days later, and the day after that, police found Hemphill’s missing vehicle. Curiously, Lee is also a person of interest in another Oklahoma missing persons case, the 2014 disappearance of Richard Horn. He is the last person known to have been with Horn.

No charges have been filed against anyone in Horn or Hemphill’s disappearances; both cases remain unsolved.