Summary based on the NamUs case record (CP999657300)
James Edward Malpass was reported as a missing adult male, age 49, last seen on November 19, 2021, in Warrenton, Missouri. The public record of his disappearance appears to have been brief and spare, with little narrative detail available online about what led up to that day, what he may have been doing when he was last seen, or who last had contact with him.
Warrenton is in Warren County, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s missing-person search page lists the Warrenton Police Department and Warren County Sheriff’s Office among agencies associated with missing-person reporting in the state. The Highway Patrol notes that its missing-person information is drawn from NCIC through investigating agencies and is updated daily, with further information directed back to the investigating agency.
In the period after November 19, 2021, James’s case appears to have existed largely as a quiet entry rather than a widely covered public story. Searches of available online sources did not locate detailed news coverage, a public family appeal, a contemporaneous press release, or a fuller official narrative describing the circumstances of his disappearance. That absence of detail matters because it leaves the human story behind the listing incomplete: a man was reported missing from Warrenton, and those who cared about him were left with uncertainty, but the publicly accessible record does not explain whether he left on foot or by vehicle, whether he was believed to be in danger, what he was wearing, or what search efforts may have followed.
The case no longer appears to be listed among the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s active missing-person results, which currently show active Missouri missing-person records and identify the dataset as NCIC-derived and updated daily. The same active-results page describes 1,044 active missing-person results at the time it was accessed, but James Edward Malpass is not among the names visible in that active listing. Online records also indicate that a person with the same full name, James Edward Malpass, matching the gender and an age consistent with the man who was 49 in 2021, appeared in later public booking records, including a 2024 Seminole County, Oklahoma booking record and a 2026 Canadian County, Oklahoma booking record. Taken together, those later records indicate that he was found alive, though the exact date when the missing-person matter was resolved is not clear from the available public information.
What remains publicly visible is a case that seems to have begun with a simple but serious fact: James Edward Malpass, a 49-year-old man, was last seen in Warrenton, Missouri, on November 19, 2021, and at some point afterward the missing-person concern was resolved because later online records show him alive. The public record does not provide a detailed account of the search, the moment he was located, or the circumstances that ended the uncertainty, so the story must be told with care and restraint. In overview, this was a Missouri missing-adult case with limited publicly available detail, no widely located news narrative, and later public records indicating that James Edward Malpass was alive after the date he was reported missing.Last Seen: Nov 19, 2021
