Missing from: Charlotte, North Carolina
Missing: May 18, 1987
Age at disappearance: 29
Height: 5′ 4″
Weight: 120
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Distinguishing Characteristics: Scars, Marks, Tattoos: Caucasian female.
Circumstances of Disappearance: Rhonda was last seen at her apartment complex, at 3100 Central Avenue in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 18, 1987. She was reported missing on May 26, 1987. Family say she is a homebody and not to type to be gone from home. Rhonda is believed to be missing under suspicious circumstances.
11/20/07
CHARLOTTE — Every year, thousands of people are reported missing in the United States, many of which remain unsolved. “My daughter that she’s holding in one of those pictures is now a college student,” said Paula Forest of her missing sister. “A whole lifetime has passed. And Rhonda was not the type of person to be gone from home; she was more of a homebody.”
Forest and her family is still searching for Rhonda Baucom 20 years after her disappearance. She went missing from her apartment complex on May 18, 1987.
“I don’t believe she’s alive but I can’t believe in my heart that she’s dead until I have someone buried,” said Forest.
Forest and her family is still searching for Rhonda Baucom 20 years after her disappearance. She went missing from her apartment complex on May 18, 1987.
A former police officer, Forest said she sees a vast improvement in the way missing persons cases are handled. She also said she is happy to see the media attention given to more recent cases; attention she said her sister’s disappearance never received.
Investigative Agency: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department 704-336-3949
If you have any information on this case, please contact CUE Center for Missing Persons at (910) 343-1131 or call the CUE Center 24-hour tip line at (910) 232-1687. All information submitted to CUE Center for Missing Persons is confidential.