On June 23, 2022, 46-year-old Ginger Kay Mikel, a woman associated with Waynesville, Missouri, was last seen, and from that point forward the public record of her disappearance becomes painfully thin. Her name appears in a Charley Project update archive from October 8, 2023, indicating that her case had been recognized among missing-person case records by that time, even though the individual case page is no longer publicly accessible through that link. The absence of a fuller surviving public profile leaves the story with few confirmed details: a woman in midlife vanished from a small Missouri community, and the online trail that remains does not explain where she was headed, who last had contact with her, what she may have been wearing, or what circumstances first led loved ones or authorities to realize something was wrong.
The broader setting for Ginger’s case is Missouri’s missing-person system, where the Missouri State Highway Patrol serves as the state clearinghouse for missing-person information through its Missing Persons Unit, a role established under Missouri law in 1985. The Highway Patrol’s public missing-person pages state that its listings are derived from NCIC information submitted through investigating agencies and are updated automatically, while also noting that the Patrol is not the originating source of the data. That structure matters in cases like Ginger’s because public-facing information can be limited, delayed, changed, or removed depending on what is submitted, what remains active, and what is allowed to be shown publicly.
By 2026, Missouri’s public statistics still showed hundreds of active missing adults statewide, including 368 total active adult cases from 1953 through 2022 and 615 total active adult cases from 1953 through 2026, illustrating how many families continue to live with unresolved absence long after the first report is made. In that context, Ginger’s disappearance is one of those cases where the human weight is much larger than the available public detail. There is no broad news archive, no detailed timeline, and no publicly available account explaining the days before or after June 23, 2022. What remains is the core fact of a missing woman, the place where she was last known to be, and the uncertainty that followed.
The Charley Project describes its work as a public-awareness archive for long-term missing-person cases, especially those that may receive little sustained press attention, and says it profiles cold-case missing people from the United States rather than actively investigating them. Ginger’s appearance in such an archive underscores how quietly some disappearances can settle into the public record: not through extensive media coverage, but through a name preserved on a list, a date attached to an absence, and the hope that someone may still remember something useful. The exact sequence of events after Ginger Kay Mikel was last seen is not clearly documented in accessible online sources; the overview of the case is that Ginger Kay Mikel, a 46-year-old woman, was last seen in Waynesville, Missouri, on June 23, 2022, and the publicly available record provides only limited information about what happened next, leaving her disappearance defined by unanswered questions, scarce confirmed details, and the continuing importance of awareness.
Last Seen: Jun 23, 2022
