Talia Jean Rex, a 16-year-old girl, was reported missing after she was last seen in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 24, 2026. The official Tennessee Bureau of Investigation bulletin listed her as 15 at the time the notice was issued and described her as an American Indian female with black hair and brown eyes, standing approximately 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing about 170 pounds.
Public information did not identify the specific part of Nashville where Talia was last seen, what clothing she was wearing, who had last been with her, or what may have happened before contact with her was lost. With so few circumstances released, the early story of her disappearance centered on a teenager whose whereabouts were unknown and whose family, investigators, and community needed someone to recognize her photograph or provide information that could help bring her home.
The Metro Nashville Police Department handled the local investigation, while the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation circulated Talia’s identifying information and requested help from the public. Her January 2026 case was assigned a National Crime Information Center reference number and publicized through an official missing-child poster. The limited nature of the public notice meant that many important details remained private or unknown: authorities did not publicly explain whether Talia was believed to have remained in Nashville, traveled elsewhere, left voluntarily, or been accompanied by another person. Talia had also been the subject of an earlier missing-child report after disappearing from Nashville in April 2025. That earlier notice used the same general physical description and advised that she might still have been in the local area, but publicly available records did not provide a detailed explanation of how that earlier case was resolved or how it related to the later January 2026 disappearance.
Talia was ultimately located, bringing the period in which she was publicly considered missing to an end. The exact date of her recovery and the circumstances surrounding where or how she was found have not been clearly disclosed in the information available to the public. No reliable public account provides a detailed timeline of the investigation, explains what led authorities to her location, or describes what occurred during the time she was missing. Those omissions should be respected, particularly because Talia was a minor and details involving a recovered child may be withheld to protect her safety and privacy. What can be said is that public awareness efforts began after a 16-year-old girl disappeared from Nashville on January 24, 2026, law enforcement agencies distributed her description and asked the community for assistance, and the search later ended when Talia was located. Viewed as a whole, the case is the story of a Nashville teenager whose disappearance prompted renewed concern following an earlier missing-person report, whose movements remained largely undisclosed throughout the search, and whose eventual recovery provided a welcome resolution even though the precise date and circumstances remain vague.Last Seen: Jan 24, 2026
