April Lazette Dahlvang was 29 years old when she was last reported as missing from Memphis, Tennessee, with NamUs listing her date of last contact as December 1, 2020. She was a female from the Memphis area, and public missing-person listings described her as approximately 5 feet 3 inches tall and about 100 pounds, with blond or strawberry-colored hair and green eyes. Her case was entered into NamUs as MP87693, and the Memphis Police Department was identified as the investigating agency.
The circumstances surrounding April’s disappearance appear to have begun as a deepening family concern rather than an immediately documented emergency. According to the case information reported to authorities, her mother, Donna Dahlvang, went to the Mount Moriah Station and told police that April had been missing since around mid-December 2020. Donna explained that April had left home before and sometimes stayed away for a couple of months, but this time was different because the absence had stretched far longer than usual. That history may have made the early days of concern complicated, but as more time passed without April returning home, the situation became increasingly troubling for those who loved her.
The available public information indicates that April’s mother had last spoken with her by cell phone sometime after she was first believed to have left, but there was no indication in the public case summary that April had safely returned at that time. By the time the missing-person report was formally associated with the Memphis Police Department, the case had already carried months of uncertainty. Public listings preserved the essential details needed to identify her and connect any possible sightings or information back to investigators: her name, age at the time she went missing, Memphis location, physical description, and NamUs case number.
Official case records now indicate that April Dahlvang was found alive, and her missing-person case is no longer active. The exact date she was located has not been publicly stated in the available information. What began as a painful and prolonged period of uncertainty for her family in Memphis ultimately ended with confirmation that she was alive. In overview, April’s case reflects the difficulty families face when a loved one has been away before but then remains gone much longer than expected: concern grows slowly into fear, a report is made, public identifying details are shared, and investigators rely on any available information to help resolve the disappearance.Last Seen: Dec 1, 2020
