Shirley LaShay Fletcher was 27 years old when she was last seen in Ferguson, Missouri, on May 1, 2023. She is listed as a Black female with black hair and brown eyes, standing about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing about 130 pounds in one public case profile. At the time of her disappearance, she was reportedly wearing a burgundy wig. The available public record gives very little about what led up to the moment she was last seen, leaving her case defined not by a detailed timeline but by a
painful absence: after that day in Ferguson, she was not heard from again.
The Charley Project lists Shirley’s case classification as missing and states that few details are available about the circumstances of her disappearance. That scarcity of information can make a case especially difficult for the public to understand, because there is no widely reported sequence of events, no public explanation of where she may have been headed, and no released account of what concerns first prompted the missing person report. What remains publicly known is stark and important: Shirley disappeared from Ferguson, a city in St. Louis County, and her whereabouts became the subject of a missing person investigation.
Public records do show that law enforcement has treated Shirley Fletcher as a missing adult case. A Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse bulletin identifies the case as “Missing Adult,” lists Shirley Fletcher as missing from Ferguson, Missouri, and provides physical descriptors including Black race, female gender, black hair, brown eyes, height of 5 feet 6 inches, and weight of 148 pounds. That same bulletin directs anyone with information about Shirley’s whereabouts to contact the Ferguson Police Department at 314-522-3100, and it also lists the Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse as a point of contact.
There is a discrepancy in the public materials: The Charley Project lists Shirley as missing since May 1, 2023, at age 27, while the Missouri State Highway Patrol bulletin displays a “Date of Last Contact” of July 20, 1995, and an age at disappearance of 29. Because the Highway Patrol page also states that its missing person information is derived from NCIC through the investigating agency and updated to the webpage, the mismatch appears in the public record itself rather than in a detailed narrative explanation. In the absence of a clearer official public timeline, the May 1, 2023 Ferguson last-seen date and age 27 remain the key details reflected in Shirley’s public case profile, while the law enforcement bulletin confirms that Ferguson Police are the investigating agency associated with requests for information.
Shirley’s case is one of those missing person cases where the lack of publicly released detail should not be mistaken for a lack of urgency or a lack of meaning. Behind the brief entries are people who knew her face, her voice, her routines, and the particular presence she had in their lives before she vanished. The publicly available information does not describe suspects, a cause, confirmed travel, or known events after she was last seen, and it does not indicate that she has been found alive or deceased. As publicly documented, Shirley LaShay Fletcher remains listed as a missing woman last seen in Ferguson, Missouri, on May 1, 2023; she was 27 years old, described as a Black female with black hair and brown eyes, and the central overview of the case is that she disappeared from Ferguson, has not been publicly reported found, and authorities continue to direct anyone with information about her whereabouts to the Ferguson Police Department.Last Seen: May 1, 2023
