Thirteen-year-old Kinsley Wherry was listed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as missing from Ridgeville, South Carolina, with a missing date of January 30, 2026. The public listing identified her as age 13 and directed anyone with information to contact the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina at 1-843-873-5111.
The available public details are limited, but the information that has been released places the focus of concern in Ridgeville, a Dorchester County community where the search for answers depends heavily on anyone who may have seen or heard something that could help clarify where Kinsley went after she was last seen.
Before the Ridgeville listing, public reporting had also connected Kinsley Wherry’s name to a separate missing-child investigation in Conway, South Carolina. WJCL reported that Conway police opened an investigation after Kinsley was reported missing on a Saturday in January 2026, describing her at that time as a 12-year-old girl and asking the public for help. In that earlier report, police said she was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed about 120 pounds, with blue eyes and blonde hair. They said she had last been seen at about 3:55 p.m. in the 1600 block of Third Avenue, wearing a white T-shirt and maroon-and-orange shorts, and asked anyone with information to contact the Conway Police Department.
The later Ridgeville entry shifted the public-facing information to Dorchester County and listed Kinsley as age 13, missing from Ridgeville on January 30, 2026. Online sources reviewed for this synopsis do not provide a detailed explanation of the circumstances leading up to that date, whether she was believed to be traveling with anyone, what she may have been wearing in Ridgeville, or what direction she may have gone. That lack of detail can be especially painful in a child’s missing-person case, because families, investigators, and community members are left working with fragments: a name, an age, a place, a date, and a phone number where a tip could make a difference. The South Carolina Attorney General’s Office notes that its office works with the State Law Enforcement Division and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help find missing children, and it urges the public to review missing-child information carefully and report anything that may help reunite a child with family.
What is publicly known is that Kinsley Wherry is a young girl whose name appeared in South Carolina missing-child notices during January 2026, first in public reporting tied to Conway and then in a National Center for Missing and Exploited Children listing tied to Ridgeville. The case, as reflected in available online sources, is defined by sparse public information and by the continued importance of community awareness. At its center is a 13-year-old child last listed as missing from Ridgeville, South Carolina, on January 30, 2026; authorities directed tips to the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office, and the available record leaves the case as one in which the most meaningful details may still come from someone who remembers seeing Kinsley, hearing from her, or noticing something unusual around the time she disappeared.Last Seen: Jan 30, 2026
