Janell Lashawn Massey, 40, was last seen on September 2, 2016, at a convenience store in Jasper, Alabama. At the time she was living in a residential home for women after a recent separation from her husband. It is not known whether she left the store with another person or how she traveled from the location.

A police report was not filed until January 3, 2017, four months after her last confirmed sighting. Janell is described as a white female, 5 feet 7 inches tall, about 115 pounds, with chin-length red/auburn hair that had been dyed a dark black/red color, green eyes, heavily freckled skin and several distinctive tattoos including a sun and moon on her left shoulder, the words I love you on one calf, and a bull on the other.

The gap between her last sighting and the report, and the unknowns about her departure from the store, are key unresolved elements in this disappearance. If anyone in Jasper around early September 2016 remembers seeing Janell or has information about her movements that day, please come forward.