Alana Marie Strohmer, also known as Alana Martin, vanished after her last known contact with family on September 1, 2015. At the time she was about 40 years old and had longstanding ties to Southern California, including attendance at Orange Glen High School in Escondido as part of the class of 1994. Her family describes her life as unstable by the fall of 2015 and authorities listed her as transient in the San Diego area.

Her mother last spoke with her on September 1, 2015 and reported her missing to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department in May 2016. Alana is described as Hispanic/Latina and White/Caucasian, medium height and build, with brown hair and brown eyes. Distinctive tattoos include a rose on her right ankle and a sunflower at her navel.

Alana is entered in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System and her family provided a DNA reference sample from her mother to the California Department of Justice Jan Bashinski DNA Laboratory. There have been no public announcements explaining her disappearance.

If anyone knew Alana, her routines, residences, or where she might have been spending time in 2015, can you share what you remember?