Melissa Ann Hatley is listed in public missing-person records from Pearl River County, Mississippi, with her last known contact recorded in NamUs as May 21, 2021, and the last known location given as the Hillsdale area near Timberbluff Drive. NamUs identifies her as case MP101638 and describes her as 61 years old at disappearance, White, about 5 feet 4 inches, roughly 100 pounds, with gray or partly gray medium-length hair and blue eyes.

Records name the Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department in Poplarville as the investigating agency, list Investigator Jeff Horner and agency case number SO22-009232, and note a DNA reference sample was collected from a sister.

Very little else is available publicly about what happened after she was last seen or whether she was located. Did anyone in the Hillsdale or Timberbluff Drive area see Melissa around that date or have information about her movements that day?