Elsea Lorenzo Crumble was 36 years old when he was last seen on October 24, 2021, in Ironton, Missouri. He is identified in available public case information as a Black male, 5 feet 7 inches tall and approximately 168 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. His date of birth is listed as January 20, 1985, placing him in his mid-thirties at the time he disappeared.
The publicly available record of his case begins with that October day in Ironton, a small southeast Missouri community in Iron County, where he was last known to be before contact with him ended.
After October 24, 2021, the documented trail becomes painfully thin. Publicly available case summaries state that Crumble was never heard from again after being last seen in Ironton, and that few details have been released about the circumstances of his disappearance. There is no widely available public narrative describing where in Ironton he was last seen, what he may have been doing that day, who last had contact with him, whether he had transportation, what clothing he may have been wearing, or whether any personal belongings were recovered. The absence of those details leaves the case defined largely by a date, a place, a name, and the unanswered question of what happened after his last confirmed contact.
The Charley Project’s March 2023 update archive lists Elsea Lorenzo Crumble among cases added or updated on March 7, 2023, showing that his disappearance had been documented in public missing-person case records by that point. The case information reproduced in an online missing-person discussion also cited the Missouri State Highway Patrol and The Charley Project as source references, and it listed the Iron County Sheriff’s Office as the investigating agency. The contact number shown for the Iron County Sheriff’s Office in that public case information is 573-546-7051.
A later public discussion entry dated July 30, 2024, stated that Crumble had been removed from the Missouri Highway Patrol missing adults list, but the available online information reviewed does not provide a clear public explanation for that removal. It does not state in the sources reviewed here that he was found alive or that he was located deceased, and no exact resolution date is provided. Because the available information is vague, the public record as reflected in these sources leaves important questions unanswered about how or why his listing changed.
In the end, Elsea Lorenzo Crumble’s case stands as one of those quiet, difficult missing-person stories in which the lack of public detail should not be mistaken for a lack of importance. A 36-year-old man vanished from Ironton, Missouri, on October 24, 2021; he was described as a Black male with black hair and brown eyes, 5 feet 7 inches tall and 168 pounds; the Iron County Sheriff’s Office was listed as the investigating agency; and the public information available about what happened to him after that day remains limited. The overview of the case is that Elsea Lorenzo Crumble was last seen in Ironton, Missouri, and the publicly documented circumstances surrounding his disappearance remain sparse, with no clearly stated public resolution in the online sources reviewed.Last Seen: Oct 24, 2021
