Account
Dec 12, 2008
Jan 12, 2024
Stephanie
Wallace
64
45
65 inches
67 inches
130 lbs
155 lbs
Black / African American
Female
In the winter of 2005, a family began to worry about Stephanie Collette Wallace, a 45-year-old woman from Richmond, Virginia, known to her loved ones as Cherry. Stephanie had traveled to Hampton, Virginia, to attend a Narcotics Anonymous conference between January 7th and January 9th. On the evening of January 9th, she returned to Richmond and left a voicemail for a relative, simply letting them know she was home. That message was the last time her family would ever hear from her. She was seen that same evening in the 3100 block of 5th Avenue in the Highland Park area of the city. As the days turned into weeks with no word, concern grew into alarm, and on February 18, 2005, her family officially reported her as a missing person. At the time of her disappearance, Stephanie was described as a Black female with black hair and brown eyes, standing between 5'5" and 5'7" tall, and weighing between 130 and 155 pounds. She was last known to be wearing a sterling silver dolphin necklace. She had distinct physical characteristics, including three missing upper front teeth and a noticeable large cyst on her left wrist. At the time she vanished, Stephanie was living on Utah Place with her boyfriend and another couple. Her life had its struggles; she had a history of cocaine abuse, but according to her mother, she was looking toward the future with hope and had expressed a desire to enter a drug rehabilitation program. She was a person who had held various jobs, including work as a housekeeper, a landscaper, and a construction laborer. Her family, particularly her mother, found her sudden silence deeply unsettling and out of character, insisting that she would not have just left without telling anyone. The area she frequented was the Highland Park neighborhood, which is where she was last seen. The circumstances of her disappearance were puzzling, leaving her family with unanswered questions and a painful void. The investigation into Stephanie Wallace's disappearance has continued for years, yet her case remains unsolved. She is classified as an endangered missing person. The Richmond Police Department and the FBI have been involved in the investigation, seeking any information that could lead to a breakthrough. Over the years, law enforcement has circulated information about her case, hoping for new leads. The final communication from Stephanie was a simple voicemail confirming her return home, a seemingly normal end to a trip that instead became the starting point of a long and agonizing mystery. The lack of resolution has left a profound and lasting impact on her family, who continue to wait for answers about what happened to Stephanie after she was last seen on that cold January evening.
Jan 09, 2005
Richmond
Virginia
Richmond City
6847
ATF
Richmond
Virginia
,
768080-10-0029
ATF
5714
Black
Brown
Brown
06/21/2026
