Missing
Shawnda Renee Baldwin
Baldwin, approximately 2011
Date and time person was reported missing : 12/25/2011
Missing location (approx) :
Lexington, Kentucky
Missing classification : Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
Age at the time of disappearance: 32 years old
Height / Weight : 4'11, 190 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A loose baggy t-shirt, blue jeans, sneakers and earrings.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Baldwin's hair was mid-back length at the time of her disappearance. She has a scar on her forehead, her ears are pierced and she wears eyeglasses. She has a tattoo of a heart with a banner on the upper left side of her chest and a tattoo of a small heart with a sword through it on her right ankle. Baldwin may use the last names Dixon, Grimes and/or Scott.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Baldwin was last seen in Lexington, Kentucky on December 25, 2011. She said she was going out of town with her boyfriend and would be back in a couple of weeks. She never returned home. Her boyfriend stated they went to Tennessee, where he got sick and had to go to the hospital. A mutual friend then took Baldwin to a Kroger store to get money, then dropped her off at a bus station. She may have been planning to take a bus to Louisiana to meet someone she knew from online. She has never been heard from again.
Baldwin was very close to her family and kept in regular touch with them prior to her disappearance. Few details are available in her case.
Other information and links : ncy
Lexington Police Department
859-258-3600
September 2021 updates and sources
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