On August 4, 2014, Christina L. Dean, a 37-year-old woman, was last seen in Beloit, Wisconsin, in Rock County. Public missing-person records describe Christina as a White/Caucasian female, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and 118 pounds, with red or auburn hair, hazel eyes, and glasses. NamUs lists her as Missing Person case MP109610, with Beloit recorded as the missing-from location and August 4, 2014, as the date of last contact.
The available case details place her last known sighting in the 1000 block of Prairie Avenue in Beloit, where she was reportedly seen by a neighbor, leaving her family and the community with only a narrow window of known information about her movements at the beginning of the case.
Christina’s disappearance was reported by her family on August 14, 2014, ten days after she was last seen. According to the case information, those close to her knew that she sometimes left for a quiet place and might not come home for several days, which may help explain why the alarm did not become immediate in the first days after August 4. But concern grew when she did not return and when communication stopped. Investigators recorded that there had been no contact with Christina after a text message from August 5, 2014. Around the time she disappeared, it was also previously reported that Christina had entered a green Mini Cooper with an unknown Illinois license plate, a detail that remains one of the most specific publicly described leads connected to the period when she vanished.
There has been some public confusion because Christina had also gone missing earlier in 2014, before the August case. In that earlier incident, a CBS58 update reported that 36-year-old Christina Dean had been located safe and sound after someone who had seen news coverage spotted her walking around; family and friends said at that time that she had been dealing with mental health issues, though the exact circumstances of that earlier disappearance were not disclosed. That earlier “found safe” report appears to refer to the prior May 2014 incident, not to the later August 2014 missing-person case that remains listed in NamUs and was still being discussed by Beloit police in 2025. Because of that distinction, the May 2014 recovery should be understood as part of Christina’s broader history, but not as a confirmed resolution of the August 4, 2014 disappearance.
Other public missing-person notices have said Christina may have been headed toward northern Illinois and may have been last seen in Rockford, Illinois. Those same public notices describe her as someone who had expressed interest in working with people who were deaf and people experiencing homelessness, details that give a more human picture of Christina beyond the facts of a case file. One Wisconsin missing-person listing also says she was last seen wearing a long skirt or dress. These details do not explain what happened to her, but they help preserve the memory of a woman with relationships, concerns, and a life that mattered deeply to those who reported her missing and continued hoping for answers.
Years later, Christina’s case was still being treated as unresolved. In January 2025, local reporting stated that Beloit police were renewing attention on several missing-person cases, including Christina Dean’s, in hopes of generating new leads by sharing the cases again with the public. The report noted that Christina’s story was part of that renewed effort and that the last contact anyone had with her was a text message on August 5, 2014. Publicly available information reviewed for the August 2014 case does not confirm that Christina has been found alive or deceased, and NamUs continues to list her missing-person case. The overview of the case is that Christina L. Dean, a 37-year-old woman from Beloit, Wisconsin, was last seen on August 4, 2014, near Prairie Avenue; her family reported her missing on August 14; her last known contact was a text message the following day after she was last seen; a possible green Mini Cooper with Illinois plates became part of the public account; and, despite earlier confusion caused by a separate May 2014 incident in which she was found safe, the later August 2014 disappearance remains the case for which her loved ones and investigators have continued to seek answers.Last Seen: Aug 4, 2014
