Missing
Tasha Shante Wright
Tasha, approximately 1989
Date and time person was reported missing : 10/14/1989
Missing location (approx) :
Dallas, Texas
Missing classification : Non-Family Abduction
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
Black
DOB : 03/07/1979 (42)
Age at the time of disappearance: 10 years old
Height / Weight : 4'3 - 5'0, 70 - 80 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A short-sleeved aqua shirt, faded aqua shorts, and brown slip-on leather sandals. Her hair was pulled to the side and held in place with a clip.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Tasha has a mole on one of her fingers. Her ears are pierced.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Tasha walked to a neighbor's home in her family's apartment complex, Valley Glen Apartments on Hollybush Drive off Ferguson Road in east Dallas, Texas, between 10:30 and 10:50 a.m. on October 14, 1989. She had gone to a neighbor's to give a messAge at the time of disappearance: from her mother.
Tasha did arrive at the neighbor's apartment, but she never made it back to her own. She may have been seen in the breezeway of a nearby apartment shortly after her disappearance, but this sighting has not been confirmed. She has never been heard from again.
Foul play is suspected in Tasha's case. Her father, who lived in Rockwall, Texas at the time of her disappearance, was interviewed by police but said he had no knowledge of her whereabouts.
Tasha was a fourth-grade student in the gifted and talented program at Bayles Elementary School in 1989. She enjoyed music, dancing and swimming. Her case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Dallas Police Department
214-670-4426
September 2021 updates and sources
Child Protection Education of America
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Dallas Morning News
NewsLibrary
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