Brian Andrew Depriest was 33 years old when he was last seen on May 12, 2022, in Oak Grove, Missouri. Public missing-person records describe him as a white male, 5 feet 10 inches tall and approximately 165 pounds, with brown eyes; one official Missouri State Highway Patrol bulletin listed his hair color as unknown, while The Charley Project lists brown hair. He was born on March 2, 1989, and one detail that may help distinguish him is a tattoo of a clown on his right shoulder.
From the beginning, the available public information has been sparse, but the basic facts are consistent across multiple sources: Brian disappeared from Oak Grove, and his case has remained listed as a missing adult matter.
The official public-awareness bulletin issued through the Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse identified Brian as a missing adult and gave his “Date of Last Contact” as May 12, 2022. The bulletin did not provide a detailed account of what he was doing that day, who last saw him, what he may have been wearing, or whether he was believed to be traveling on foot or by vehicle. It simply placed the point of concern in Oak Grove, Missouri, and asked anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact the Oak Grove Police Department. That absence of detail leaves much of the story painfully incomplete: for those who knew Brian, the public record does not explain why contact stopped, whether there were immediate warning signs, or what direction investigators believed the case might take.
In the year after his disappearance, the Oak Grove Police Department publicly stated that it continued to seek leads in the disappearance of Brian DePriest Jr., noting that he had been missing for one year and had not been seen or in contact with family or friends. That statement added an important human dimension to the case: Brian was not merely absent from a database, but absent from the lives of people who expected to hear from him. A community post connected to missing and unsolved cases in Missouri also referred to him as Brian DePriest Jr., also known as Drew, and described him as having brown eyes, brown or often-shaved hair, standing about 5 feet 10 inches tall, and weighing around 175 pounds; that post gave a less precise disappearance timeframe, while official missing-person records continue to use May 12, 2022, as the date of last contact.
The public record does not show a detailed timeline after Brian was last known to be in Oak Grove. There are no widely available official details describing confirmed sightings after May 12, 2022, and no public source reviewed here gives a verified explanation for what happened to him. The Charley Project lists his classification simply as “Missing,” and SpotCrime’s missing-person listing likewise identifies him as missing from Oak Grove on May 12, 2022, with the same general physical description: male, brown eyes, unknown hair, 5 feet 10 inches tall, and 165 pounds. These entries reinforce the same central facts but do not expand the circumstances, leaving the case defined by a few critical identifiers and a long silence.
Brian’s case is therefore one of limited public details but continuing significance. He was a 33-year-old man last seen in Oak Grove, Missouri, on May 12, 2022; he is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall, around 165 pounds, with brown eyes and a clown tattoo on his right shoulder. The Oak Grove Police Department has been identified as the investigating agency, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse has also listed contact information for tips. In overview, Brian Andrew Depriest’s disappearance began with a last known contact in Oak Grove and has continued as an unresolved missing adult case marked by few publicly released circumstances, no confirmed public explanation, and an ongoing need for information from anyone who may know where he went or what happened after he was last seen.Last Seen: May 12, 2022
