In July 1981, 20-year-old Audrey Chin left her family's home in East Norwich, New York, for what should have been a quick trip to the grocery store. She never returned. More than four decades later, her disappearance remains one of Long Island's enduring unsolved mysteries.

In this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey examine the life of a young woman whose future seemed full of promise. Audrey was working as a typist while attending night classes at the State University of New York's Agricultural and Technical College at Farmingdale. She hoped to transfer to Stony Brook University that fall to continue her education and pursue her dream of becoming a nurse. Friends and family described her as responsible, hardworking, and happy. Nothing suggested she intended to disappear.

After Audrey vanished, investigators located her tan 1976 Chevrolet Nova abandoned in the parking lot of a diner at Old Country Road and South Oyster Bay Road in Plainview. Several of the tires were flat, and investigators found cigarette ash inside the vehicle, despite Audrey being a non-smoker. The discovery only deepened the mystery.

Amy and LaDonna also explore one of the more unusual aspects of the case. The night before Audrey disappeared, she fainted in her family's bathroom, striking the back of her head. Although she was evaluated at a hospital and doctors found no serious injury, Audrey's mother later wondered whether the fall or a delayed medical complication could somehow have played a role in her disappearance. Investigators have never found evidence to support that theory, but it remains one of several unanswered questions surrounding the case.

The hosts discuss why Audrey's family never believed she left voluntarily. On the morning she disappeared, she scheduled a veterinary appointment for her kitten later that afternoon and left several hundred dollars in cash untouched in her room. She also left behind the life she had been carefully building, including her job, her education, her boyfriend, and her future plans.

More than 40 years later, Audrey Chin has never been found, and no one has been charged in connection with her disappearance. Amy and LaDonna examine the timeline, the evidence, and the lingering questions that continue to haunt investigators and Audrey's loved ones.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Audrey Chin, please contact the Nassau County Police Department at 516-573-8800.

Join Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey as they continue telling the stories of missing women and girls whose cases deserve renewed attention—because every girl deserves to be found, and every family deserves answers.