Jessica Holtzinger, a 15-year-old female from Phoenix, Arizona, was reported missing after leaving her home on March 18, 2026 and not returning. The missing-person record identifies Phoenix as the location of her disappearance and places her within the 85008 ZIP Code area of Maricopa County. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children also lists Jessica Marie Holtzinger as a missing child, age 15, from Phoenix, with March 18, 2026 recorded as the date she went missing.
The Phoenix Police Department is identified as the investigating agency, and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children record provides the department's public telephone number for information concerning her whereabouts.
Public information about the circumstances surrounding Jessica's disappearance is limited, but a community missing-person organization later provided additional details about her last known whereabouts. According to that account, Jessica was last seen at approximately 9:00 p.m. in the area of 27th Street and Roosevelt in Phoenix. The same account described her as approximately 5 feet 3 inches tall and 150 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, and noted a scar on her forehead. It also stated that she was last seen wearing a green or brown long-sleeve shirt and purple sweatpants. These details provide a more specific picture of the circumstances surrounding the March 18 disappearance than the national missing-child listing, which confirms the date and Phoenix location but does not publish the same clothing and physical-description information.
Jessica's disappearance also carried the weight of a previous missing-person episode involving the same young girl. The community organization reported that she had previously gone missing in June 2024, when she was 13 years old, and that her whereabouts remained unknown for approximately a month before she was found. Contemporary reporting from FOX 10 Phoenix documented that earlier search, describing efforts by Jessica's father, teachers, community members and a private investigator to locate her throughout the Valley. That earlier episode ultimately ended with a private investigator reporting that Jessica had been found safe. FOX 10 reported that the earlier disappearance began near 27th Street and Roosevelt and that concerns for her safety prompted an extensive community search. The recurrence of a disappearance involving the same Phoenix area added important context to the renewed search for Jessica in 2026.
As the 2026 search continued, Jessica's family and the wider Phoenix community remained concerned about her whereabouts. ABC15 reported in its coverage of Arizona's missing-child cases that Jessica's family was still searching for her and quoted her father describing the emotional impact of having his daughter missing. That report identified Jessica as one of the missing children being sought in Phoenix and placed her disappearance around the 27th Street and Roosevelt area. At the time of that reporting, the family was continuing to seek information that might help bring her home. The public record therefore reflects a period in which Jessica's disappearance generated both law-enforcement attention and continued concern from people close to her.
Later, the publicly available listing maintained by Missing No More was updated to mark Jessica Holtzinger as “FOUND.” The listing was originally posted in April 2026 and shows a July 14, 2026 update associated with the found designation. It identifies Jessica as 15, from Phoenix, and repeats the March 18 disappearance information, including the approximate 9:00 p.m. last-seen time and the 27th Street and Roosevelt location. The public listing does not provide detailed circumstances surrounding her recovery, nor does it explain where she was located or what occurred between her disappearance and her return. Accordingly, the available public record establishes that she was later reported found, while leaving the specific circumstances of her recovery private or otherwise undocumented in the sources reviewed.
The case is also notable because publicly available records do not all appear to have been updated at the same time. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children page continues to display Jessica's March 18, 2026 disappearance as a missing-child listing, while the later Missing No More entry identifies her as found. The difference appears to reflect the timing and updating of separate public databases rather than evidence of a different person: the identifying name, age, Phoenix location and March 18 date correspond across the records. No reliable public source located in the available search provides further details about the circumstances of her recovery. Taken as a whole, the case began with the disappearance of 15-year-old Jessica Holtzinger from Phoenix on March 18, 2026, prompted a renewed search involving her family, authorities and community members, and was later publicly marked as resolved when she was reported found, although the precise circumstances of the disappearance and recovery remain largely undisclosed.Last Seen: Mar 18, 2026
