Brenda Gail Lambert.

MUS-2026-0112

Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.

Brenda Gail Lambert, 23, left her son’s first birthday party in Bluefield, West Virginia, on the night of July 26, 1992 and was never seen again. She had filed a domestic violence complaint weeks earlier. Five months later Mark Anthony Cook also disappeared, and authorities believe the two disappearances are connected. A male suspect failed a polygraph but was never charged. Both cases remain unsolved.

1. 1992-07-10

   Lambert called the Princeton police department asking how to drop a domestic violence petition

2. 1992-07-26

   Last seen leaving her son's first birthday party at 9:00 p.m.; all of her belongings were left behind

3. 1993-01-14

   Mark Anthony Cook disappeared; authorities said the two disappearances may be connected and foul play may be involved in both

4. 2006-09

   The Bluefield Daily Telegraph revisited the case, then more than thirteen years old and still unresolved

5. 2016-04

   Lambert's sister continued seeking answers and donated her DNA to a databank

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• Charley Project: Brenda Gail Lambert
• Cullman Times: 2016 cold case revisit
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