Jasmine Michelle Cruz, a 30-year-old woman, was last seen on April 1, 2016, in the Fayetteville area of Fayette County, West Virginia, with public missing-person listings placing the circumstances in Deep Water. Her disappearance began after she left her mother’s residence on Boonesboro Road following an argument. Reports describe her as leaving the home and then being seen running into a wooded area toward the water, a detail that shaped the early understanding of where search attention and
investigative concern were focused. NamUs lists her case as MP50482 and records her date of last contact as April 1, 2016, from Fayetteville, West Virginia.
At the time she disappeared, Jasmine was described in missing-person records as a Black woman with black hair and brown eyes, approximately 5 feet 1 inch tall and about 160 pounds. Public case summaries report that she had not been seen or heard from again after leaving the residence. The Charley Project reported that investigators did not state they necessarily believed she had met with foul play, but they did believe she was probably deceased, while WCHS reported in 2017 that Crime Stoppers of West Virginia and Fayette County officials were seeking information in her case and that investigators believed she was dead but had not located her body at that time.
The case remained part of Fayette County’s unresolved missing-person concerns, with the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office identified as the investigating agency in public case records. The available online information is limited, but it consistently centers on a sudden disappearance from the Deep Water area after Jasmine left her mother’s home and vanished into a rural, wooded environment near water. The investigating agency has reported that Jasmine Cruz has been found deceased; however, the exact date and detailed circumstances of that recovery are not clearly available in the online public sources reviewed, so no specific recovery date can be stated. In overview, Jasmine’s case began as the disappearance of a 30-year-old woman from Fayette County on April 1, 2016, developed into a search for answers after she was not heard from again, and now stands as a resolved missing-person case in which her loss remains deeply felt by those who knew and loved her.Last Seen: Apr 1, 2016
