Michael Lynn Goode, a 41-year-old Black/African American man, was last known to be in Phoenix, Arizona, on May 7, 2026. According to the publicly available NamUs case information, Goode left his apartment without informing others and subsequently stopped communicating with his family. The circumstances surrounding his departure are not publicly detailed beyond that description, leaving important questions about where he intended to go, whether he was traveling alone, and what may have occurred
after he left. His disappearance was later reported to the Phoenix Police Department, which lists the agency case number as 202600686484. The police report was made on May 19, 2026, and the case was subsequently published through the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System under case MP159820. No reliable online source located in the available search provides a more specific account of his last movements or establishes where he may have gone after leaving his apartment.
Public case information describes Goode as approximately 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 225 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. The available NamUs record does not provide clothing or accessories that he was known to have been wearing when he disappeared, nor does it list a vehicle or other transportation associated with his disappearance. There are also no publicly listed distinctive physical features in the case record that would provide additional identifying details. The case information places the last known location in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, but does not identify a particular street, business, neighborhood, destination, or other location where Goode was last observed. The absence of those details makes it difficult to reconstruct his movements from publicly released information. Online searches for his name and case number did not uncover a credible news report or police announcement supplying additional circumstances, photographs, search developments, or a subsequent resolution that could be independently confirmed.
The available record indicates that concern centered on the fact that Goode left his apartment unexpectedly and then remained out of contact with his family. For those who knew him, the disappearance would have transformed an ordinary absence into an unsettling period of uncertainty, particularly because there is no documented explanation in the publicly accessible case material for why he left or why communication stopped. The Phoenix Police Department is identified as the investigating agency, and the case remains published in NamUs as a missing-person case. The publicly accessible information does not establish whether Goode voluntarily traveled elsewhere, encountered an emergency, became unable to communicate, or experienced some other circumstance after leaving his residence. It is therefore important not to fill those gaps with speculation. As of the information that could be verified from online sources, there is no confirmed account explaining what happened to him after May 7, 2026.
Taken together, the case concerns the unexplained disappearance of Michael Lynn Goode, a 41-year-old Phoenix man who left his apartment unannounced on May 7, 2026, and subsequently ceased communicating with his family. His disappearance was reported to the Phoenix Police Department on May 19, 2026, and the investigation was entered into NamUs as MP159820. The public record provides identifying information, including his age, sex, race/ethnicity, approximate height and weight, black hair, and brown eyes, but contains few details about his final movements and no publicly verified explanation for his disappearance. The limited information available leaves his family and investigators with unanswered questions about where he went after leaving his apartment and what became of him, making this a case defined by an unexplained loss of contact and an absence of confirmed information about his whereabouts.Last Seen: May 7, 2026
