On February 22, 2022, 41-year-old Matthew D. Bateman, a white male, was last seen in Ironton, Missouri, a small community in Iron County. Public missing-person listings describe him as 5'11" tall and about 200 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. He was reported missing after being seen walking on State Highway C, and he has not been heard from again. On that day, Matthew was reportedly wearing a royal blue shirt, black shorts, and loafers.
He also wore eyeglasses, and one of his most recognizable identifying features was the full sleeve tattoos on both arms.
The known public details of Matthew’s disappearance are painfully limited. The Charley Project states that he was last seen walking on State Highway C in Ironton on February 22, 2022, and that few details are available in his case. That scarcity of information leaves a difficult silence around the day he vanished: there is no publicly detailed timeline explaining where he had been before he was seen, where he may have been going, whether he was expected somewhere afterward, or whether anyone spoke with him that day. What remains in the public record is the stark outline of a man last seen on foot, in a rural Missouri setting, whose disappearance left loved ones and investigators without the answers they needed.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse issued a public awareness bulletin for Matthew Bateman, listing the date of last contact as February 22, 2022, and naming the Iron County Sheriff’s Office as the investigating agency. That bulletin repeats his physical description, including brown hair, blue eyes, 5'11" height, 200-pound weight, glasses, and tattoos on both arms, and it asks anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact the Iron County Sheriff’s Office. The same bulletin lists “Missing From: Annapolis, MO,” while other public case summaries list Ironton, Missouri, as the location where he was last seen; taken together, the available sources place the case within the Iron County region and center the last publicly described sighting around Ironton and State Highway C.
Matthew’s case appears to remain publicly classified as missing. No online source reviewed here indicated that he has been found alive or located deceased, and no clear public case-resolution status was found. That means the public record, as available, still reflects an unresolved disappearance rather than a closed case. For his family, friends, and community, that kind of uncertainty can be especially heavy: there is grief in the absence itself, but also the ongoing hope that one piece of information, one remembered sighting, or one overlooked detail could help explain what happened after Matthew was last seen.
The overview of Matthew D. Bateman’s case is one of a sudden disappearance with very few public details: a 41-year-old man last seen on February 22, 2022, in the Ironton, Missouri area, reportedly walking on State Highway C, wearing a royal blue shirt, black shorts, and loafers, identifiable by his glasses and full sleeve tattoos on both arms. The Iron County Sheriff’s Office is listed as the investigating agency, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse has also circulated his information. Years later, the central facts remain the same and the unanswered questions remain profound: Matthew was seen, then he was gone, and the case continues to depend on information from anyone who may know where he went, what he encountered, or what happened to him after that last known contact.Last Seen: Feb 22, 2022
