Celeste Diana Doghmi was 27 years old when contact with her faded in Auburn, Maine, in 2021. Public records describe her as a woman originally from Germany who had been living in Auburn with her boyfriend and young son, and the official NamUs-style case data identifies Auburn in Androscoggin County as the last known location connected to her. The exact date of her disappearance is unclear in public reporting: some official case information lists June 1, 2021, as the date of last contact, while
Auburn police and Maine State Police public notices describe her as last known to be in the Auburn area around July 2021 or the end of July 2021. The FBI’s public missing-person notice says she was reportedly last seen in June 2021 by her ex-boyfriend leaving their apartment at 85 Academy Street in Auburn, and that she has not been seen or heard from since.
At the time, Celeste’s life appeared to be moving through a fragile but hopeful chapter. The FBI says she had recently given birth to a child and was in the process of enrolling in college, and other public reporting has described loved ones seeing signs through social media that she was busy with motherhood and school plans. Her last known social media activity was reported by the FBI as August 2, 2021, which deepened the uncertainty around when her life truly went silent. Because Celeste was reportedly estranged from much of her family and many of her friends, with family living outside Maine and some out of the country, the silence did not immediately trigger a missing-person investigation in the way it might have if she had been in steady daily contact with relatives nearby.
For nearly two years, Celeste’s absence appears to have gone unreported as a formal missing-person case. In 2023, concern sharpened when authorities and child welfare officials tried to locate her in connection with matters involving her child, and police were unable to find her. Public reporting from Auburn in June 2023 stated that Celeste’s family had not been able to contact her since around the time of her last known location, and Maine State Police later noted that investigative efforts had not produced any alternative address or indication that she was living somewhere else. The FBI’s notice states that her disappearance went unreported until 2023, after her ex-boyfriend was arrested for domestic abuse and the Maine Office of Child and Family Services began searching for her.
Celeste is described in public law-enforcement notices as about 5 feet 2 inches tall and approximately 110 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Auburn police described her as a Black woman and a German citizen, while NamUs-style case data lists her race or ethnicity as “Other.” Distinguishing features may help identify her: public summaries note ear piercings, and Charley Project reports that she also has nose and tongue piercings, a tattoo of the name “John” on her left breast, and a large tattoo on her right thigh or upper leg depicting a dream catcher with feathers and a compass; the provided case data also identifies a large dream catcher tattoo with feathers on her right leg.
Celeste’s case is especially painful because so much of it is defined by absence: the delayed report, the uncertain timeline, the conflicting public references to June and July 2021, and the lack of a confirmed new address, sighting, or explanation for why a young mother building a future would vanish from contact. Authorities have continued to ask the public for help, with Auburn police directing tips to their anonymous tip line and Maine State Police asking anyone with information about her possible whereabouts to contact investigators. In overview, Celeste Doghmi’s case began with a young woman last connected to Auburn in the summer of 2021, continued through nearly two years in which her absence was not formally recognized as a missing-person investigation, and remains centered on a narrow but unresolved question: what happened to Celeste after she was last known to be in Auburn, and where is she now?Last Seen: Jun 1, 2021
