Summary based on the NamUs case record (MP98504)
Joseph Dean Johnson was 16 years old when he was last seen in Roy, Washington, on September 24, 2022. Public missing-person records identify him as a male and list the NamUs case number as MP98504, placing his last known contact in the small Pierce County community of Roy, a rural area south of Tacoma. The available public information is limited, but it gives a clear starting point: a teenage boy named Joseph, still at an age when family, school, and home should have been central parts of life,
disappeared from contact on that late-September day. NamUs lists his case as a missing-person case connected to Roy, Washington, and gives the date of last contact as September 24, 2022.
The details released about Joseph describe him as White/Caucasian, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was about 6 feet tall and weighed around 150 pounds at the time he was reported missing in public listings. Those details matter because, in cases involving missing teenagers, even basic identifiers can help someone remember a sighting, an encounter, or a moment that seemed ordinary at the time but later becomes important. Public listings also continue to associate Joseph’s case with Roy, Washington, and the same September 24, 2022 last-seen date, showing consistency across available online missing-person references.
The publicly available circumstances are sparse and sensitive. The case information provided through official data classifies the circumstances as “Runaway,” but that label does not make Joseph any less missing, nor does it lessen the urgency of knowing whether he is safe. A runaway classification often means investigators believed the young person may have left voluntarily, but a 16-year-old away from home can still be vulnerable, isolated, or in need of help. The public record does not provide a detailed timeline of where Joseph may have gone after Roy, who he may have been with, what clothing he was wearing, or whether there were confirmed sightings after September 24, 2022.
The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office is listed in the case data as the investigating agency, with the agency connected to Tacoma in Pierce County. The case data also indicates that Joseph’s case was reported to the agency on December 22, 2022, nearly three months after the listed last-contact date. That gap in public-facing dates leaves much unknown from the outside: whether family or others searched privately first, whether there were communications that later stopped, or whether the formal missing-person entry came after efforts to locate him had not resolved the situation. What can be said with care is that by the time the case entered the public missing-person system, Joseph’s absence had become serious enough to be documented for broader awareness.
As the years have passed, Joseph’s listed current age has moved from a missing 16-year-old to an estimated 19-year-old in more recent public listings, but the central facts remain the same: Joseph Dean Johnson, male, was last seen in Roy, Washington, on September 24, 2022, and his case is identified in NamUs as MP98504. In overview, this is the case of a teenage boy from Pierce County whose publicly available story is brief but important: he was last known to be in Roy, Washington; he was described as 6 feet tall, about 150 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes; the circumstances were publicly classified as runaway; and the limited record leaves unanswered where he went, what happened after his last known contact, and what information may still be needed to bring clarity and peace to those who care about him.Last Seen: Sep 24, 2022
