Rama Arefaine was 29 years old when he was reported missing from Dundalk, Maryland, with the date of last contact listed as January 1, 2018. Publicly available records identify his case in NamUs as MP42871, and the basic circumstances released online are sparse: the available summary states that there had been no contact with him since the beginning of 2018.
That absence of detail leaves much of Rama’s story publicly unknown, but it also underscores the concern at the heart of the case: a young man reached a point where those connected to him no longer had contact, and his name entered the national missing-persons system.
The known identifying information describes Rama as a Black / African American male, 29 years old at the time of the incident, approximately 70 inches tall, weighing about 160 pounds, with black hair. The public case listing places him in Dundalk, Maryland, a Baltimore County community, and gives January 1, 2018 as the missing date. No publicly available source found here provides a detailed final sighting narrative, a clothing description, travel destination, vehicle information, medical needs, or an explanation for why contact stopped, so those details should not be assumed. What remains is a limited but serious record of a man whose whereabouts became unknown and whose case was entered for public awareness.
Rama’s case appears in NamUs, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, under case number MP42871. NamUs is an official U.S. Department of Justice missing-persons and unidentified-persons resource, and the public page for Rama’s case shows the case was created on April 12, 2021. A separate public case page notes that its information was retrieved from NamUs and was last updated on June 9, 2022. The Charley Project’s January 2019 update archive also lists Rama Arefaine among names added or updated on January 3, 2019, indicating that his disappearance had already been circulating in missing-persons awareness spaces before the NamUs page creation date shown on the public NamUs profile.
No online source reviewed here states that Rama Arefaine has been found alive or located deceased, and no attached data provided a case-resolution status of Alive or Deceased. For that reason, the public narrative remains one of uncertainty rather than closure. His case is marked by the painful lack of public detail: a man in his twenties, last connected to Dundalk at the start of 2018, with no contact reported afterward, and with only a brief set of identifiers available to help keep his name visible. The overview of the case is that Rama Arefaine, a 29-year-old Black male from or last associated with Dundalk, Maryland, was last listed as missing on January 1, 2018; the known public record provides his physical description and NamUs case number but does not explain the circumstances of his disappearance, leaving his story dependent on continued attention, accurate information, and compassion for everyone still seeking answers.Last Seen: Jan 1, 2018
