Kimberley Jean Bunton, 55, was last seen in Rolla, Missouri, on December 15, 2021. That day she had been released from the Pulaski County Jail and was dropped off at a McDonald’s on Kings Highway. Bunton, known as Sassy, told her mother she would seek housing through a drug rehabilitation program but instead called a friend, Edward D. Jones, who picked her up at a gas station. Her family reported her missing on January 6, 2022, after she failed to contact them over the holidays.

Investigators later learned Bunton died of a fentanyl overdose on December 15, and men involved in moving her body allegedly transported it to the St. Louis area and disposed of it in a dumpster. Cellphone records show Jones’s and another man’s phones traveled to St. Louis and back to Rolla that day. Jones died of a fentanyl overdose in April 2022; searches in Berkeley, Ferguson, and Kinloch have not located her remains despite a May 2022 trip to St. Louis to try to find the dumpster.

No remains have been recovered and Bunton remains officially missing. If anyone has information about Kimberley Bunton’s last movements or the location where her body might have been disposed, please come forward.