Vickie L. Carriere was a young female, 18 years old, from Waggaman, Louisiana, when she was last reported missing in Jefferson Parish on September 12, 1987, according to NamUs and Louisiana’s missing-person repository. She was a white woman with blond or strawberry-blond hair, green eyes, about 5 feet 5 inches tall, and approximately 120 pounds. The public case records place her last known location in Waggaman, and NamUs describes the circumstances simply: she was last seen at a convenience
store in Waggaman, Louisiana. The same official profile lists the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office as the investigating agency, with the case entered in NamUs as MP4904.
At the time she disappeared, Vickie was remembered as being close to a major turning point in her life. Secondary missing-person sources report that she was pregnant and expecting a baby boy, a detail that deepens the grief surrounding her absence because her disappearance was not only the loss of a daughter, but also the loss of the child her family had been preparing to welcome. The Charley Project identifies her as Vicki Lynn Carriere and reports that she was last seen with her boyfriend, Joseph Phillips, at a Time Saver convenience store in the 8600 block of River Road in Waggaman. According to that account, Phillips was the father of her unborn child and the couple were engaged. They had reportedly been at his family’s fishing camp before he was supposed to take her back to her parents’ home on Azalea Drive.
The known story centers on that stop at the convenience store. Phillips reportedly told authorities that he went inside the store while Vickie waited outside in the car. When he came back, he said she was gone, and a bundle of her clothing was gone as well. No confirmed sighting has publicly established where she went after that moment. NamUs gives the official, stripped-down version of the disappearance as a convenience-store last sighting in Waggaman, while the more detailed secondary accounts add that the stop happened during what should have been the final stretch of a trip back to her parents’ home. That ordinary errand became the last known point in Vickie’s publicly documented trail.
Vickie’s family reportedly became concerned when she did not return from the trip, and their fear grew when she missed her baby shower. The Charley Project reports that her parents had been looking forward to the birth of their grandson, had already bought baby items, and had even paid the hospital delivery bill in advance. A WDSU report years later described her family’s continuing search for answers more than two decades after she vanished, emphasizing that her loved ones still hoped public attention might bring forward information. In that way, the case has remained not only an investigative file, but a family wound carried across decades.
Vickie’s identifying details remain important because they are part of how the public record continues to preserve her identity. Official and public missing-person listings describe her as having blond or strawberry-blond hair and green eyes. She had a yellow rose tattoo on an ankle; some sources specify the right ankle, while NamUs lists the ankle location as unknown in the provided public detail. She was reported wearing a white maternity top with the word “baby” printed in black letters and dark blue shorts. The Louisiana repository and NamUs both continue to associate her case with Waggaman and Jefferson Parish, and the listed investigating agency remains the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Over time, public summaries of Vickie’s case have included some conflicting details, especially around whether the last-seen date was July 12 or September 12, 1987. NamUs, the official national missing-person case entry, lists the date of last contact as September 12, 1987, while The Charley Project and several secondary summaries describe the disappearance as occurring on July 12, 1987. What remains consistent across the available public accounts is the core of the case: Vickie Carriere was a young woman from Waggaman, Louisiana, reportedly pregnant and nearing the birth of her child, last connected to a convenience-store stop in her hometown, and never publicly confirmed to have been seen again. The case remains remembered as the disappearance of an 18-year-old daughter and expectant mother whose family sought answers for decades, with the enduring overview being that Vickie vanished from Waggaman after a brief stop at a convenience store, leaving behind unanswered questions about what happened to her and her unborn son.Last Seen: Sep 12, 1987
