On August 1, 2016, Steffan Mikel Wuori, a 26-year-old male, was last seen in Raleigh, North Carolina. Public missing-person records describe him as a White male with brown hair and brown eyes, approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall and 140 pounds at the time he disappeared. His case is listed as a missing-person case, and the available public summaries place the beginning of the known timeline in Raleigh on that August day, when Steffan was last known to be seen before contact with him ceased.
The publicly available details about the circumstances are painfully limited. The Charley Project states that Steffan was last seen in Raleigh on August 1, 2016, and that he has never been heard from again, while also noting that few details are available in the case. NamUs lists the case as Missing Person / NamUs #MP75451 and identifies the date of last contact as August 1, 2016, with the case page created in April 2021. Taken together, these records indicate a disappearance that has remained publicly sparse: no detailed last-known route, destination, companion, vehicle description, clothing description, or public account of what he may have been doing immediately before he vanished appears in the accessible online case summaries.
That lack of public detail does not lessen the weight of the case. A missing-person file with only a few known facts can be especially difficult for families and investigators, because the unanswered questions are broad from the start: where exactly Steffan went after he was last seen, whether anyone had contact with him later, whether there were signs of distress or voluntary departure, and whether any witness information was ever developed but not publicly released. The available sources do not provide enough information to responsibly describe a suspected cause, a theory, or a confirmed sequence of events beyond the fact that Steffan disappeared from Raleigh and was not heard from again.
The Raleigh Police Department is listed as the investigating agency, with a public contact number of 919-996-3335. In North Carolina, the state’s missing-person clearinghouse describes its role as working with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to help locate missing people and reunite them with families; in cases like Steffan’s, that broader system exists alongside the local investigating agency and national databases such as NamUs. The online record therefore reflects a case held in both local and national awareness, even though the publicly available narrative remains brief.
Steffan Mikel Wuori’s disappearance is remembered through a small set of confirmed public facts: he was 26 years old, male, last seen on August 1, 2016, in Raleigh, North Carolina, and later entered into national missing-person records under NamUs #MP75451. The known description of him is straightforward, but the circumstances surrounding what happened next remain unclear in the public record. With no detailed public timeline beyond the last-seen date and location, the case stands as one of those quiet missing-person stories in which the absence of information becomes part of the tragedy. The overview of the case is that Steffan was last seen in Raleigh, was not heard from again, remains documented in online missing-person sources, and the publicly available information leaves his loved ones and the wider community with far more questions than answers.Last Seen: Aug 1, 2016
