Michael Joseph Forti, a 43-year-old male, was reported missing from St. Louis, Missouri, with one public case listing giving a missing-since date of March 14, 2023. The publicly available records also contain an important discrepancy: the Missouri State Highway Patrol missing-adult bulletin and NamUs identify his date of last contact as February 14, 2023, while The Charley Project’s profile lists “Missing Since 03/14/2023” but describes him in the case details as last seen in St.
Louis on February 14, 2023. Because the public records do not fully reconcile those dates, the safest reading is that Michael disappeared from St. Louis in early 2023 and that the exact last-contact date is unclear in the available sources. What is consistent across the records is that Michael Joseph Forti was a white male, born March 3, 1980, and was listed as 43 years old in missing-person materials connected to his case.
The physical description released for Michael is specific and meant to help the public recognize him. Missouri’s missing-person bulletin describes him as 6 feet 4 inches tall and approximately 220 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes; The Charley Project gives the same height, weight, hair color, and eye color. His photograph was included in the Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse public-awareness bulletin, underscoring that the case was being circulated for recognition by people who might have seen him or might know something about his whereabouts. The investigating agency listed on the Missouri bulletin is the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, and the bulletin asks anyone with information about Michael Forti’s whereabouts to contact that department at 314-231-1212; it also lists the Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse as a point of contact.
Very little has been released about the circumstances surrounding Michael’s disappearance. The Charley Project states simply that he was last seen in St. Louis, Missouri, and has not been heard from again, adding that few details are available in the case. NamUs identifies the matter as Missing Person case MP152382, connected to St. Louis, Missouri, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s active missing-person search results list “FORTI, MICHAEL JOSEPH” as an adult missing person investigated by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The limited public narrative leaves many unanswered questions: where in St. Louis Michael was last known to be, what his plans were that day, who last had contact with him, and whether any witnesses, records, or movements after that point have been confirmed publicly.
Michael’s case is therefore marked less by a long public timeline than by a painful absence of detail. His identifying information has been preserved in official and public missing-person records, his image has been circulated through Missouri’s missing-person bulletin system, and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department remains the named investigating agency in the available records. For those who know and love him, the brief public wording cannot capture the weight of what it means for a person to vanish and for answers to remain scarce. In overview, Michael Joseph Forti was a 43-year-old man missing from St. Louis, Missouri, in early 2023, with public records showing a March 14, 2023 missing-since date in one listing but February 14, 2023 as the date of last contact in Missouri and NamUs records; he is described as a white male, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 220 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, and the known public record centers on a St. Louis disappearance with few released circumstances and an appeal for information through the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse.Last Seen: Mar 14, 2023
