A 35-year-old Cambridge woman reported missing just days earlier has been found dead in Guernsey County, and investigators still have not disclosed where her body was located or what killed her. Katrina Day was reported missing to the Cambridge Police Department on Aug. 14, and members of the Guernsey County Sheriff's Office located her body four days later, on Tuesday.
Day's disappearance and death are now the subject of a joint investigation by the Guernsey County Sheriff's Office and the Cambridge Police Department, according to The Daily Jeffersonian. Before her body was recovered, searchers had concentrated their efforts on the Buffalo area of Guernsey County and the nearby village of Lore City, rural communities southeast of Cambridge where Day was known to have recently spent time, as reported by YourRadioPlace.com.
Investigation Still Withholding Key Details
In a joint statement issued Aug. 19, the sheriff's office and Cambridge police confirmed the case remains under active investigation, with no cause of death released and no determination yet on whether foul play was involved, the outlet reports. Authorities have also declined to say exactly where Day's body was found, according to the same report. Those unanswered questions leave the community with little clarity so soon after the search began.
Cambridge is the county seat of rural Guernsey County in eastern Ohio, a city of roughly 10,000 residents that regularly leans on the Guernsey County Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Jeffrey D. Paden, for rural land searches, per the agency. That kind of cross-jurisdictional cooperation is not unusual in the area, the two agencies have a history of joint task force work, including multi-agency narcotics operations carried out across Cambridge and surrounding townships in July 2025.
A Pattern of Missing-Person Cases in the Region
The sheriff's office also maintains an active cold case unit listed on the Ohio Attorney General's registry, tracking unsolved missing-person cases in the county dating back decades, including the 1992 disappearance of Dale Vincent, who remains listed on state missing-person databases. Statewide, Ohio law enforcement agencies logged 19,930 missing-person reports in 2025, a decrease of 1,412 cases from the year before, according to the 2025 Ohio Missing Children Clearinghouse Report released by Attorney General Dave Yost in May. Of those, 2,067 entries filed with the National Crime Information Center in 2025 involved missing individuals of any age whose physical safety was indicated to be in danger, per state records.
Under state procedures, local agencies like those in Guernsey County can request specialized crime lab analysis, intelligence support, and field assistance from the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's Missing Persons Unit when handling complex missing-person or death investigations, the Ohio Attorney General's office notes. It remains unclear whether that state-level support has been requested in Day's case. For now, officials in Cambridge and Guernsey County have offered no timeline for when further details, including cause of death, might be released.
