Paysha Taylor, identified in the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s public record as Paysha Cisaorshay Taylor, was a 15-year-old female whose disappearance was reported from Phoenix, Arizona, on May 22, 2025. That date became the central point in the public record of her case, marking the beginning of the effort to determine where she had gone and to bring her safely back to those who cared about her.
NCMEC issued a missing-child poster for Paysha and displayed photographs intended to help members of the public recognize her. Her case was entered under NCMEC case number 2052738, with an associated National Crime Information Center number of M868426010. Beyond those basic facts, the publicly available notice provided very little information about what happened in the hours leading up to her disappearance, leaving much of the story surrounding May 22 unknown outside of the investigation.
The lack of publicly released circumstances makes Paysha’s disappearance especially difficult to reconstruct. The NCMEC notice does not identify a particular Phoenix neighborhood, street, residence, school, business, or other location where she was last known to be, nor does it describe what she was doing immediately before she disappeared. It does not provide a clothing description, identify anyone who may have been with her, mention a vehicle, or give a possible destination or direction of travel. There is likewise no narrative on the poster describing whether she left voluntarily, whether investigators believed she might have traveled somewhere outside Phoenix, or whether any person was suspected of being involved. Instead, the alert focused on the essential information needed to circulate her identity and photographs as widely as possible, allowing someone who recognized Paysha to contact authorities even if that person knew nothing about the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
Phoenix police were identified as the law-enforcement agency handling information connected with the case. The NCMEC poster directed anyone who had seen Paysha or knew something about her whereabouts to contact the Phoenix Police Department at 602-262-6151. NCMEC also made its national 24-hour missing-child hotline, 1-800-843-5678, available for information. Those contact numbers were important because, with so few circumstances disclosed publicly, even a seemingly small observation could potentially help investigators establish a timeline, determine where Paysha went after she was last known to be in Phoenix, or identify people who may have had contact with her. The poster included multiple photographs of Paysha, specifically noting that the images shown were of her, emphasizing visual recognition as one of the primary tools available to the public in helping authorities locate her.
What remains most striking about Paysha Taylor’s case is how little of the story was made public beyond the fundamental facts of her disappearance. A teenager disappeared from Phoenix on May 22, 2025, her photographs were circulated through the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and Phoenix police became the agency to which information was to be reported. No detailed account of her final known movements, the precise place she was last seen, the circumstances under which she disappeared, or the investigative developments that followed was included in the publicly available NCMEC record. Her case therefore stands as one in which the public appeal centered almost entirely on recognizing Paysha herself and providing information directly to investigators. In overview, Paysha was 15 when she was reported missing from Phoenix, her disappearance was formally documented through NCMEC as case 2052738 and through NCIC as M868426010, and authorities asked anyone with knowledge of her whereabouts or movements to contact Phoenix police or the national missing-child hotline so that the unanswered circumstances surrounding her disappearance could be clarified.Last Seen: May 22, 2025
