Steven Michael Godwin was a 31-year-old White male who was reported missing from Muscadine, Alabama, with NamUs listing his date of last contact as July 28, 2016, and his last known location as Muscadine in Cleburne County, near the Alabama-Georgia state line. Public case information describes him as male, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and approximately 175 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.
He had tattoos on both arms and his chest, and he was reportedly wearing army-green cargo pants, an army-green T-shirt, and a camouflage University of Alabama baseball cap when he was last seen.
The known account of Steven’s disappearance centers on a morning trip away from his residence near U.S. 78 east of Muscadine. According to the available case details, he left home around 8:00 a.m. with a cousin who lived in Douglasville, Georgia, traveling east toward Georgia. The same account states that Steven was dropped off near the Tallapoosa River Bridge on U.S. 78 in Haralson County, Georgia, around 8:00 a.m. After that point, the public record becomes painfully limited; there is no clear, confirmed public account of where he went next, who he may have spoken with, or whether he was seen again after being left near the bridge.
Some public online summaries contain conflicting details about the year and age connected to Steven’s disappearance, with certain listings describing July 28, 2015, and an age of 30, while NamUs case MP34954 lists July 28, 2016, and the attached case data lists him as 31 at the time he went missing. The core circumstances, however, remain largely consistent across the available public sources: Steven left from the Muscadine area near the state line, traveled along U.S. 78 with a cousin from Douglasville, Georgia, and was reportedly dropped near the Tallapoosa River Bridge in Haralson County. Those repeated details form the central timeline investigators and the public have had to work from.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency has listed Michael “Steven” Godwin as a missing person and described the case status as active in its public alert information. ALEA’s public notice says he left his residence and had not returned, and it places his last known sighting in the Muscadine Community of Cleburne County, Alabama, while noting that his direction of travel was unknown. That detail captures the uncertainty that has surrounded the case: while one account places him near the Tallapoosa River Bridge in Georgia, law enforcement’s public-facing alert also emphasizes the Muscadine community as the last known area tied to him.
Steven’s identifying features remain an important part of the public record because they offer tangible details for anyone who may remember seeing him. In addition to his brown hair and blue eyes, The Charley Project describes several tattoos on his chest and both arms, including a spiderweb, a cross, the letter “A,” and a tribal band. The clothing description from the case data gives another image of that day: army-green clothing and a camouflage University of Alabama cap, ordinary items that became part of the last known description of a man who vanished during what appears to have begun as a routine trip near the Alabama-Georgia border.
Steven Michael Godwin’s case remains a quiet and unresolved disappearance built around a narrow but significant chain of events: a 31-year-old man from Muscadine, Alabama, left his residence near U.S. 78, traveled with a cousin toward Georgia, and was reportedly dropped near the Tallapoosa River Bridge in Haralson County before the trail faded. The available public information does not provide a confirmed explanation for what happened after that, and there is no public resolution status indicating that he has been found. The case stands as an active missing person matter in which the most basic questions remain unanswered: where Steven went after that morning, whether someone saw him along U.S. 78 or near the bridge, and what happened to him after he disappeared from the lives of those who knew and loved him.Last Seen: Jul 28, 2016
