Missing
Shonna Dannette Wesley
Shonna, approximately 1981
Date and time person was reported missing : 05/29/1981
Missing location (approx) :
Dallas, Texas
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
Black
DOB : 12/10/1964 (56)
Age at the time of disappearance: 16 years old
Height / Weight : 5'5, 130 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A t-shirt and blue jeans.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Shonna has a scar on her head. Her middle name may be spelled "Danette."
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Shonna was last seen in Dallas, Texas on May 29, 1981. The same day she disappeared, her two-year-old daughter was found abandoned, wearing only a t-shirt and a diaper, at the South Oak Cliff apartment complex. The toddler wasn't identified immediately and spent a week in foster care before her grandmother stepped forward and claimed her.
In the meantime, Shonna's boyfriend contacted her mother to say she'd disappeared, along with a lot of her wardrobe. Shonna's mother reported her missing on June 2.
Little information is available in Shonna's case. Her mother, who died in 2002, never believed she left of her own accord, stating she wouldn't have abandoned her child. Her case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Dallas Police Department
214-671-4268
September 2021 updates and sources
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October 12, 2004. February 26, 2016; height, weight and Description, clothing, jewerly and more : added, Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: updated.
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