Tina May Stadig was 40 years old when she disappeared from Skowhegan, Maine, with her official NamUs case listing her date of last contact as May 28, 2017, and her missing-from location as Skowhegan in Somerset County. She was described as a White woman with brown hair and hazel eyes, about 5 feet 2 inches tall and 140 pounds. Tina sometimes used the name Jen, and some public missing-person materials also noted that she might use the name Tammy, her twin sister’s name.
She had several identifying tattoos, including a cross on her forearm, party dots on her left wrist, a sun and moon on her back, and a heart on her ankle. At the time she was last known to be in contact with others, she was believed to have been wearing blue jeans and a flannel shirt and may have had a blue backpack, a backpack, or a trash bag containing her belongings.
The earliest publicly reported circumstances place Tina in Skowhegan on May 28, 2017. Local reporting later stated that she had been seen by people she was staying with and that police searches focused around a Route 150 property on the outskirts of Skowhegan, where she was last known to have been staying. Tina did not drive, which made her movements dependent on walking or accepting rides, and missing-person notices said she may have traveled toward Bangor or elsewhere in Maine. There is some uncertainty in public accounts about a later possible sighting: one source reported that she was seen near the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter on July 10, 2017, while another missing-person notice described her as allegedly trying to get a bed at a Bangor homeless shelter on July 12, when no beds were available. Because these later accounts are described as possible or alleged sightings, the most firmly documented date remains the May 28, 2017 date of last contact in Skowhegan.
Tina’s disappearance was especially painful for her family because she was vulnerable and loved. Public accounts describe her as having significant mental health challenges, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and paranoia, and missing-person notices indicated she may have needed medication. Charley Project also notes that she had substance abuse problems and that, after she disappeared, she had not accessed her Social Security debit card or other benefits. Her family’s anguish was clear in local reporting two years later, when her mother, Donna Almeida Carter, spoke about the torment of not knowing where her daughter was, and her sister Tonia described wanting answers and a place for Tina to rest if the worst had happened. Their words reflected not speculation for its own sake, but the grief of a family left without certainty.
Investigators pursued leads and searched for Tina after she was reported missing in July 2017. Central Maine reported that searches involved the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit, Skowhegan police, and game wardens, but no evidence had been found that established what happened to her. Police activity included searching the Route 150 property, including work with an excavator in June 2017 and later examination of an abandoned house near the roadside on that property in December 2017. After an abandoned structure on the property burned in December 2018, Skowhegan Police Chief David Bucknam said he did not think the fire was likely connected to Tina’s disappearance, noting that the area had been thoroughly searched. By 2019, police said the case was still active and open, though information had been sporadic and investigative leads had been exhausted.
The case of Tina May Stadig is the story of a woman who vanished from Skowhegan in late May 2017 while living with instability, health struggles, and limited transportation, and whose possible later movements may have placed her near the Bangor homeless-services community. She was a daughter, sister, and twin, remembered by family members who continued to seek truth even as leads faded. Her public case file identifies her by her physical description, tattoos, clothing, possible aliases, and the agencies responsible for investigating, while local reporting shows the human cost behind those details: a mother and sisters searching for certainty, investigators returning to the last known places connected to her, and a community still asked to come forward with information. In overview, Tina Stadig was last officially documented in Skowhegan on May 28, 2017; there were later alleged sightings in Bangor; searches and police review followed; no publicly confirmed resolution has been reported in the sources reviewed; and the central unanswered question remains what happened to Tina after she disappeared.Last Seen: May 28, 2017
