Missing
Donna Teresa Cupido
Cupido, approximately 2004; Cupido's vehicle
Date and time person was reported missing : 10/21/2004
Missing location (approx) :
Iuka, Mississippi
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 11/19/1959 (61)
Age at the time of disappearance: 44 years old
Height / Weight : 5'9, 135 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A flannel button-up shirt and slacks.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Light brown hair, green eyes. Cupido wears eyeglasses for reading. She has a three-inch scar on her left knee and a tattoo of a butterfly in purple and dark blue ink on the back of her right shoulder. Her ears both have three piercings.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Cupido was last seen dropping her daughter off at Tishomingo County High School in the vicinity of the 700 block of Highway 72 in Iuka, Mississippi on October 21, 2004. Her daughter said Cupido was behaving normally that morning and promised to pick her up after school was over.
Cupido never picked her daughter up as scheduled and has never been heard from again. Her silver two-door 2001 Kia SportAge at the time of disappearance: was later found abandoned behind the Apostolic Church on Highway 72 East in Iuka. Photographs of the vehicle are posted with this case summary.
Cupido's family believes she met with foul play, as it is uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning. She was having an extramarital affair at the time of her disappearance; both her husband and her lover took lie detector tests and passed. Her case remains unsolved; the circumstances surrounding her disappearance are unknown.
Some Age at the time of disappearance: ncies state that Cupido was last seen at the Wooden Nickel Restaurant in Cherokee, Alabama. She is originally from Canada and still has relatives living in that country.
Other information and links : ncy
Tishomingo County Sheriff's Office
662-423-7000
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation
662-534-4755
September 2021 updates and sources
A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are not known. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2�5% of missing children in Europe.
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Alabama Department of Public Safety
Eyewitness News Memphis
The Daily Journal
Crime Stoppers of Northeast Mississippi
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
