Missing
Jamie E. Harper
Harper, approximately 2007
Date and time person was reported missing : 03/10/2007
Missing location (approx) :
Rantoul, Illinois
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 11/29/1986 (34)
Age at the time of disappearance: 20 years old
Height / Weight : 5'0, 130 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A white jacket, blue jeans, and sandals. Carrying a black handbag.
Medical conditions : Harper suffers from epilepsy and is required to take daily medication which she does not have with her.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Harper's ears are pierced and she has a pierced left nostril; she wore a ring in it at the time of her disappearance. She has a tattoo of a tribal design on the small of her back.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Harper was last seen in Rantoul, Illinois on March 10, 2007. She left her mother's Paxton, Illinois home on March 9 to go to a party in the 1300 block of Laurel Drive in Rantoul with a male companion. Harper left the gathering early on the morning of March 10. She never arrived home and has never been heard from again.
Her mother reported her as a missing person the following week. She waited because Harper had previously failed to return for several days at a time. All her possessions, including her medication, were left behind.
After Harper's disappearance, an anonymous caller told police she had died of an overdose and her body was in an area of Paxton known as Dogtown. Dogtown contains three gravel pits and has been the site of many missing persons searches over the years, but no evidence relating to Harper's case was found there and the tip has not been verified.
Another young woman, Heather Zimmerman, disappeared from the Rantoul area in 1997. Authorities stated there were similarities between the two cases, and they had also searched for Zimmerman in the Dogtown area. They have the same person of interest in both cases; he has not been publicly identified.
The disappearances have not been conclusively connected, however. The friend Harper went to the party with is not being called a suspect in her disappearance.
Authorities believe Harper disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Both Paxton and Rantoul police are investigating.
Other information and links : ncy
Paxton Police Department
217-379-4315
Rantoul Police Department
217-892-2103
September 2021 updates and sources
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Crime Library
Illinois Homepageheader
The News-Gazette
October 12, 2004. March 19, 2008; Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: and Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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