Sixteen-year-old Daina Jean Baptiste vanished from Malden, Massachusetts on January 15, 2026. Very few concrete details about her last known movements have been released: it is not publicly known what she was wearing, whether she was with anyone, or where she was headed. Her disappearance was reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to widen the search.

Family, community advocates, and investigators report a frustrating lack of public leads and updates, and the case profile stresses that almost nothing has been publicly disclosed about the circumstances. Authorities are asking anyone with information, however small, to contact the Malden Police Department.

If anyone in Malden or the surrounding area remembers seeing Daina on or around January 15, 2026, or has information that could help establish her timeline, please come forward to investigators.