Seven-year-old Shamalee Lynn Taylor, a female child from Juneau, Alaska, was last seen on July 23, 1995, when she left Auke Bay Boat Harbor with three other people for what was intended to be a daylong fishing trip. Shamalee was also known by the nicknames Shammi, Shami, and Thomalee. She was described as White, approximately three feet tall and 50 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System records her disappearance as case MP66480 and identifies Juneau as her last known location. What began as an ordinary summer outing on the waters near Alaska’s capital became a devastating loss when the group’s boat failed to return to the harbor.
Shamalee had departed with three companions, including 39-year-old Daniel Arleth. When the vessel did not come back as expected, concern turned toward the possibility that the group had encountered a serious emergency at sea. The bodies of two members of the fishing party were subsequently located, confirming that the outing had ended in tragedy. Shamalee and Daniel, however, were never recovered. Available case information does not describe the condition of the boat, identify the precise waters where the incident occurred, explain what caused the vessel to be lost, or provide a detailed public account of the search. With no recovered remains and no definitive reconstruction of the vessel’s final moments, the exact circumstances surrounding Shamalee’s disappearance remain uncertain. She and Daniel are presumed to have died in the maritime incident, although Shamalee continues to be recorded as a missing person because she was never located.
The Alaska State Troopers are identified as the investigating agency, and Shamalee’s case remains documented through NamUs and Alaska’s missing-person systems. The Alaska Missing Persons Clearinghouse, operated within the Alaska Bureau of Investigation, serves as the state repository for reported missing adults and children and connects Alaska cases with national missing-person databases. Shamalee’s continued inclusion in these records preserves her identity and the circumstances of her disappearance despite the many years that have passed.
Shamalee’s story is especially heartbreaking because she was only seven years old when a familiar recreational trip became the final known chapter of her life. There is little publicly available information about her childhood, her family, her interests, or the life she knew before entering the harbor that day, and those absences leave the official record focused almost entirely on the disaster. Behind the brief case entries, however, was a young girl whose family was left without the comfort of bringing her home or knowing every detail of what happened. In overview, Shamalee Taylor disappeared on July 23, 1995, after leaving Auke Bay Boat Harbor near Juneau with three others for a fishing trip; the boat never returned, two members of the party were later found deceased, and Shamalee and Daniel Arleth were never recovered and are presumed to have died at sea.Last Seen: Jul 23, 1995
