Sarine Dickerson was 18 years old when she was last seen in Houston, Texas, on February 3, 2024. She is a Black/African American female who was described in missing-person records as standing about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing approximately 130 pounds, with red or auburn hair and brown eyes. Publicly available records provide very little information about the circumstances immediately surrounding her disappearance, stating only that she was last seen in Houston on that date.
There is no publicly released account describing exactly where in the city she was last observed, who may have been with her, what she was wearing, or what she intended to do afterward, leaving a significant gap between the last confirmed sighting and the investigation that followed.
Sarine's disappearance was entered into the national missing-person system and investigated by the Houston Police Department. Her case has remained publicly listed as a missing-person investigation, and awareness listings based on the official record have continued to circulate her photograph and identifying information in hopes that someone may recognize her or provide information. The limited public description of her disappearance has made the case especially difficult to reconstruct. There is no widely reported vehicle connected to her disappearance, no publicly identified destination she was believed to be traveling toward, and no detailed timeline explaining her movements during the hours before she vanished. What remains clear is that Sarine seemingly dropped out of ordinary contact while still a teenager, leaving investigators and those concerned for her without the answers that normally help narrow a search.
Years after Sarine was reported missing, her name emerged in a far more disturbing investigative context. In 2026, reporting on a federal child-exploitation and trafficking prosecution involving Houston man Jaelyn “Spider” Churchwell stated that prosecutors had linked Churchwell to several homicide investigations, including an investigation involving Sarine Dickerson. Churchwell was separately accused in federal court of participating in the abduction, sexual exploitation and trafficking of a teenage girl during late 2023 and early 2024. According to the prosecution allegations reported publicly, that victim was subjected to severe abuse before she was eventually rescued. Authorities also scrutinized Churchwell in connection with multiple deaths, and Sarine was identified in reporting as one of the people whose case investigators had associated with him. The available reporting does not establish that Churchwell has been charged with killing Sarine, nor does it publicly explain the evidence that led investigators to connect him to her case. The allegations against him remain subject to the court process, and the precise circumstances surrounding Sarine's disappearance have not been publicly resolved.
Despite that development, publicly available missing-person records have continued to provide only the basic facts about Sarine's disappearance, without announcing that she has been located or formally explaining what investigators believe happened to her. Her case therefore stands at the intersection of a long-running missing-person investigation and a later, serious criminal inquiry that may eventually provide additional answers. Sarine was a young woman who vanished from Houston with remarkably little publicly known about her final movements, and the subsequent association of her case with a federal trafficking suspect has added a troubling dimension without yet supplying a complete explanation. The central facts remain that Sarine disappeared from Houston at 18 years old, her whereabouts after February 3, 2024 have not been publicly established, and investigators' later examination of a possible connection to Churchwell has left her case surrounded by unanswered questions about what happened after she was last seen.Last Seen: Feb 3, 2024
