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Joseph Batiste Missing Person Case

Last seen in Pineville, Louisiana on Sep 01, 1995

Victim Details

Mar 19, 2014

Jul 31, 2020

Joseph

Batiste

82

52

67 inches

180 lbs

Black / African American

Male

Sep 01, 1995

Pineville

Louisiana

Rapides Parish

71360

Unknown

5500

Pineville Police Department

Rapides

Louisiana

Rapides Parish

71360

L. Feliciano

Detective

910 Main Street, Louisiana

3184426603

Local

Law Enforcement

https://www.pineville.net/department/index.php?structureid=14

6951-2718

1995-12-30

Pineville Police Department

Gray or Partially Gray

Brown

Brown

07/05/2026


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In the late summer of 1995, a profound and lasting mystery began to unfold in the town of Pineville, Louisiana, with the disappearance of 52-year-old Joseph Cleveland Batiste. On the first day of September, Mr. Batiste, a resident of the Camelia Garden Nursing Home, walked away from the facility and vanished. At the time he went missing, he was wearing a blue and white striped shirt and tan pants. Described as a Black man with graying black hair, brown eyes, and a mustache and beard, his sudden ...
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Last Seen: Sep 01, 1995

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  • Missing Person / NamUs #MP23900
  • Joseph Cleveland Batiste - The Charley Project
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