Dorene Alexandra Yallup was reported missing as a 15-year-old female from Vancouver, Washington, with her last known date listed as January 28, 2026. Public missing-child notices identify her as American Indian, with black hair and brown eyes, and place the beginning of the case in Vancouver, a city in southwest Washington where the Vancouver Police Department became the listed investigating agency.
The available public record is spare, but it establishes the central facts of the case: Dorene was a child when she disappeared, she was last seen in Vancouver, and her absence was serious enough to be circulated through missing-child alert channels asking the public for help.
In the days and weeks after Dorene was last seen, her case was shared in public missing-child listings that asked anyone with knowledge of her whereabouts to contact authorities. One notice described the appeal in urgent terms, asking people not to dismiss even small pieces of information, because a minor detail could help investigators understand what happened or where Dorene might be. The same alert advised that, if Dorene were located, members of the public should not approach her and should immediately contact law enforcement, a caution that underscored the need for trained officials to handle any contact or recovery effort safely.
The publicly available details do not provide a fuller account of Dorene’s activities before she went missing, who last saw her, what she may have been wearing, whether she was believed to be traveling with anyone, or what investigators believed may have led to her disappearance. That absence of detail leaves much of the story unresolved in public view. What is clear is that her identifying information was distributed so that people in Vancouver, the wider Washington area, and beyond could recognize her and report credible information. Public listings directed tips to the Vancouver Police Department in Washington at 1-360-696-4461 and to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678, also known as 1-800-THE-LOST.
Dorene’s case is therefore remembered publicly through a small but important set of confirmed facts: a 15-year-old American Indian girl named Dorene Alexandra Yallup, female, with black hair and brown eyes, was last seen on January 28, 2026, in Vancouver, Washington. Her case was circulated through missing-child alerts, with authorities and child-protection resources asking for public assistance and emphasizing that any sighting or information should be reported to law enforcement rather than acted on privately. In overview, the case began with Dorene’s disappearance from Vancouver, moved into a public appeal for help through missing-child notices, and remains publicly defined by the need for reliable information that could clarify what happened to her and help bring resolution for Dorene and those who care about her.Last Seen: Jan 28, 2026
