Melissa Jordan Missing Person Case

Aug 19, 2016

Jan 08, 2024

Melissa

Jordan

54

26

65 inches

66 inches

165 lbs

170 lbs

Black / African American

Female

In the small city of Milan, Tennessee, the holiday season of 1995 was marked by the troubling disappearance of 26-year-old Melissa Jordan. A certified nurse's aide, Melissa was last seen on the evening of December 22, 1995. At the time, she was a young Black female, standing between 5'4" and 5'6" tall and weighing around 165 pounds. On the night she went missing, Melissa was reportedly leaving a residence on Robinson Street with a 36-year-old man named Onnie B. Nesbitt, with the intention of going out for dinner. They left together in her brownish-orange 1985 Chevrolet Celebrity or Buick Riviera, and neither of them returned. This departure would be the last time anyone in her life reported seeing or hearing from her. The weeks following Melissa's disappearance brought a disturbing discovery but few real answers. In early January 1996, her car was found parked at a home on Dupree Street. When authorities searched the residence associated with the vehicle's location, they uncovered drugs, money, and weapons, but there was no trace of Melissa Jordan. The man she was last seen with, Onnie Nesbitt, also vanished for several weeks after that night, and was initially thought to be missing as well, though he later resurfaced. The discovery of her abandoned car solidified the fears of her family and investigators, strongly suggesting that she had met with foul play. Decades have passed, yet the case of Melissa Jordan's disappearance officially remains unsolved, classified as an endangered missing person case. The man she was last seen with has been described by a judge as a violent individual with a long history of criminal behavior and was later sentenced to 24 years in prison on an unrelated firearms charge. However, it remains publicly unclear if he was ever named a suspect in Melissa's case. The overview of this case is one of a young woman who vanished under suspicious circumstances after leaving with a male acquaintance. The subsequent finding of her abandoned vehicle and the lack of any contact since that day have led investigators to suspect foul play, but without a body or definitive evidence, her family has been left in a painful state of limbo, and the community of Milan is left with a tragic mystery that has endured for years.

Dec 22, 1995

Milan

Tennessee

Gibson County

No

25084

Milan Police Department

Milan

Tennessee

Gibson County

38358

Jeff Goad

Lt

7029 Telecom Drive, Tennessee

7316863309

Local

Law Enforcement

https://cityofmilantn.com/city-services/police-department

9512261212

1996-01-19

Milan Police Department

Black

Black

Black

06/27/2026