Iris Anahi Portela, a Hispanic female now listed as 18 years old, was last seen in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 1, 2024. Public records differ regarding her precise age when she disappeared: the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s missing-child bulletin identifies her as 17, while another published profile gives her date of birth as December 26, 2007.
Despite this discrepancy, the available reports consistently identify Iris as the same young woman missing from Nashville since that December day. She is described as 4 feet 10 inches tall and approximately 110 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Authorities have not publicly released a detailed account of where in Nashville she was last observed, who last saw her, what she was wearing, or what circumstances immediately preceded her disappearance. Those unanswered questions have left her story defined not by a clear sequence of events, but by the troubling absence of information about what happened after she was last known to be in the city.
The Metro Nashville Police Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation became the principal agencies seeking information about Iris’s whereabouts. An official TBI poster lists the case under National Crime Information Center number M918201050 and directs anyone who has seen Iris or knows where she may be to contact Metro Nashville police or the TBI. The bulletin, dated July 9, 2025, shows that authorities were still circulating her photograph and identifying information more than seven months after she was last seen. In September 2025, the TBI again brought public attention to her disappearance through a Missing Monday appeal focused on Iris and her connection to Davidson County. That renewed appeal repeated her physical description and asked members of the public to report any information, demonstrating that investigators still considered community awareness and witness recollections important to finding answers. The repeated circulation of her case reflects the difficult reality faced by those who care about her: as time passed, no detailed public explanation emerged to account for where she went or why contact apparently stopped.
Public reporting also documents an earlier episode involving a teenager named Iris Portela in Clarksville, Tennessee. In September 2024, the Clarksville Police Department sought assistance locating two 16-year-old girls who had reportedly left Northwest High School and were believed to be together. One girl later returned home safely, while Iris was still described as missing in the news report’s update. That earlier notice identified Iris as having black hair and brown eyes, consistent with the later Nashville bulletin, but the publicly available material does not definitively explain how the Clarksville incident was resolved, when Iris returned, or how it relates to the Nashville disappearance reported on December 1. Because official sources have not published a complete chronology connecting the two events, it would be inappropriate to assume that the earlier circumstances explain her later disappearance. The Clarksville information instead adds another unresolved layer to her history, suggesting that investigators may have had prior contacts or records that could help establish her movements, relationships and familiar locations before she was last seen in Nashville.
The publicly released information remains notably limited. There have been no authoritative reports identifying a vehicle, companion, destination, confirmed sighting after December 1, or communication from Iris following her disappearance. Authorities have also not publicly alleged that a particular person harmed her or announced a specific theory explaining why she vanished. In the absence of verified details, speculation could obscure the few reliable facts and cause additional pain to the people awaiting news. What remains certain is that Iris is a young woman whose whereabouts became unknown after she was last seen in Nashville, and that law enforcement continued to ask the public for help well into 2025. Anyone with direct information has been asked to contact the Metro Nashville Police Department at 615-862-8600 or the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND. Taken as a whole, the case is the story of a teenage girl last known to be in Nashville on December 1, 2024, an official search sustained through public appeals, a possible earlier connection to Clarksville, and a painful lack of publicly disclosed evidence explaining where she went or what happened afterward.Last Seen: Dec 1, 2024
