On Monday, August 7th, 2000 Melissa Anne Shane was reported missing after not showing up for her nursing shift at Vanderbilt Hospital. She was last seen at the Dance Connection on Friday, August 4th, 2000 and was last heard from when she left a message on her mother’s answering machine on Saturday around 2:00pm. Her car was located on Monday, August 7th, 2000 at Percy Warner Park. A search was conducted that evening and over the next two days. On Wednesday, August 9th, 2000, Shane’s body was found in Percy Warner Park in the area where her vehicle had been found earlier and near her regular walking and jogging route. Melissa Anne Shane was 24 years old at the time of her death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Melissa Anne Shane, please contact the Cold Case Homicide Unit at MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov
You can also call the Nashville Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Division anonymously at 615-742-7463
We feel it is important to put a face to the name. If you have a photograph you would like to submit to be posted (as an addition or substitution) please email: MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov