On October 9, 2025, Madison Hale-Calladitto, a 17-year-old Native American female, disappeared from Florence, Arizona, after leaving a Brightland Youth Welfare Group Home without authorization. The Florence Police Department entered Madison into the missing-person system, beginning a search that would eventually extend beyond Arizona. Publicly released information described Madison as approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing about 140 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
The available report did not provide a detailed account of the hours immediately before she left, what clothing she was wearing, whether she departed on foot or in a vehicle, or whether someone picked her up. Those unanswered details left investigators and the people concerned about her with only a limited picture of how her disappearance began.
As the months passed, information about Madison's possible whereabouts reached law enforcement in Gallup, New Mexico. In June 2026, Gallup Police publicly asked for assistance locating her, indicating that the search had expanded well beyond the community where she had originally been reported missing. Police said Madison was known to spend time around the Safeway area and reported that she might be with an adult boyfriend. Authorities did not publicly identify that individual, and the information released did not establish that he had committed any crime or explain whether investigators had confirmed that Madison was actually with him. The Gallup appeal instead focused on locating Madison and determining that she was safe. Anyone who had information about where she might be was asked to contact Metro Dispatch at 505-722-2002 or the Gallup Police Department at 505-863-9365.
The fact that Gallup Police were still seeking information about Madison in June 2026 shows that her disappearance continued to draw law-enforcement attention many months after she left the Florence-area group home. The public appeal offered several potentially important clues, particularly the Safeway area and the possibility that she was in the company of an adult boyfriend, but authorities released few additional details about where she might have traveled, who may have seen her after October 9, or what contacts she may have maintained. There were also no publicly reported arrests or criminal charges connected to her disappearance in the sources located. For a missing teenager, that lack of publicly available information can make the passage of time especially difficult for those waiting for answers, because even a seemingly minor sighting, conversation, social-media contact, or recollection could help investigators reconstruct her movements.
The public record concerning Madison later changed again. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children currently lists Madison Hale-Calladitto as missing from Buckeye, Arizona, with a reported missing date of September 2, 2026, and directs anyone with information to the Buckeye Police Department at 623-386-4421. That newer official listing does not explain in the publicly available material whether the Florence disappearance had previously been resolved, whether Madison had returned or been located at some point, or precisely how the later Buckeye report relates to the earlier Florence case. Because no clear public documentation establishes that sequence, it would be inappropriate to assume circumstances that authorities have not confirmed. What is documented is that Madison was reported missing after leaving a youth group home in Florence on October 9, 2025, Gallup Police were still seeking the public's help locating her months later and believed she might frequent the Safeway area or be with an adult boyfriend, and a later national missing-child record lists her missing from Buckeye in September 2026. Taken together, the known information describes a young woman whose whereabouts have prompted concern from multiple law-enforcement agencies across different communities, with significant gaps still remaining in the publicly available account of what happened to her and where she has been.Last Seen: Oct 9, 2025
