Melanie Melanson

In the spring of 2009, authorities announced a renewed push on the case and offered a $5,000 reward for information to solve it. In 2012, a doctor hired in the case has used a new science method called Decomposition Odor Analysis (DOA) to help find Melanie.

The Woburn Police Department originally thought that Melanson had run off to Florida, as she had run away before. They organized a massive search to find the teenager, using everything from cadaver dogs to helicopters, and there were substantial digs as well. None of the searches were successful, and no clues to Melanson's disappearance were found. There have been no arrests in the case. In August 1992, an anonymous caller suggested police should search a pond near the party site; although police followed up, nothing was found.

Melanson was a freshman in high school, and looking forward to a change of schools. At the time of her disappearance, she was living with her grandmother yet maintained contact with her parents. She was asked to attend a party on the evening of October 27, 1989.

Melanie Jo Melanson (born November 1, 1974) is a missing teenager from Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She vanished while at a party on October 27, 1989; at first, investigators believed she fled to Florida. However, subsequent investigations by both authorities and a private investigator have turned up no leads.