Sarah Vitt Missing Person Case

May 07, 2011

Jun 06, 2023

Sarah

Vitt

43

21

62 inches

100 lbs

White / Caucasian

Female

In the cold of a Michigan winter, a family's life was forever altered. On February 2, 2004, Sarah Nicole Vitt, a 21-year-old female from the Detroit area, vanished. The last known sighting of Sarah was by her boyfriend on Bewick Street in Detroit. That day, she made a phone call to her sister, a simple request for a ride, but it was a call that would become the last thread of contact her family would have. Sarah said she would call back with the specific location for the pickup, but that second call never came. The silence that followed has stretched into years of unanswered questions and unrelenting worry for her loved ones. The individual Sarah was reportedly staying with at the time told authorities that she did not wish to have any contact with her family, a statement that only deepened the mystery and concern surrounding her sudden disappearance. Sarah was a young woman with a creative spirit who grew up in Southgate, where she enjoyed sports and had a passion for writing poetry. Her family described her as fun and sweet. However, her life took a difficult turn after high school when she reportedly became involved with a new crowd and began struggling with drugs. Physically, Sarah had several distinct features. She had blue eyes, and shoulder-length, naturally curly brown hair. She wore either glasses or contact lenses and was believed to be wearing her glasses when she went missing. Her appearance was marked by a left eyebrow piercing, for which she wore both a barbell and a hoop, and single piercings in each ear. She had a large, oval-shaped mole on her inner right arm, just below the elbow. A unique tattoo, the outline of a cat's face in hot pink, was inked on the middle of her lower back. She also had a possible deformity in both of her pinkie fingers, which may have been missing knuckles, making them appear shorter than normal. The investigation into Sarah Vitt's disappearance remains an open case with the Detroit Police Department. In the years since she was last heard from, her family has endured the emotional turmoil of not knowing what happened to her. Her mother has expressed the constant pain of her daughter's absence, hoping for closure and answers. The circumstances of her case are troubling: a final, unfinished phone call for help, a secondhand message of her supposed desire to cut ties, and a life that had become entangled with risky associations. Despite the passage of time, the hope of finding out what happened to Sarah persists, fueled by her family's love and the ongoing efforts of law enforcement. Her case is a somber reminder of the many individuals who disappear, leaving behind a void of information and a family waiting for answers.

Feb 02, 2004

Detroit

Michigan

Wayne County

1645

Detroit Police Department

Detroit

Michigan

Wayne County

48226

Shannon Jones

Sergeant

1301 3rd St, Michigan

3135961800

Local

Law Enforcement

12-02110091

2012-02-11

Detroit Police Department

Brown

Blue

Blue

07/04/2026