Disappearance of Phoenix Coldon

On December 18, 2011, 23-year-old Phoenix Coldon left her family home in Spanish Lake, Missouri and disappeared. Her parents have raised criticism about the conduct of local law enforcement and Coldon's disappearance is similar to the disappearance of Stacey English in December 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia.[1]

Biography

Phoenix Coldon is the daughter of Goldia and Lawrence Coldon. Coldon was born in California as Phoenix Reeves and raised there until the family moved for her father's job to Missouri. She was adopted by Lawrence Coldon thus changing her name to Phoenix Coldon. During the Oxygen special, it was discovered that there were only four persons named Phoenix Reeves in the U.S and one didn't exist until 2012. Upon further investigation in to Phoenix Reeves it was stated that the Phoenix Reeves since 2012 had no social security number or any trail other than an address in Anchorage, Alaska. When arriving in Alaska, the filming staff spoke to the homeowner who stated that she had never met a Phoenix Reeves, and had never rented her home to anyone. She was mostly home-schooled and played a variety of musical instruments and was the local junior fencing champion.[2]

Disappearance

Coldon disappeared on December 18, 2011, after leaving her family home in a black 1998 Chevy Blazer at about 15:00 local time.[3] Her father told reporters that she was supposedly headed to a convenience store around the street or possibly a friend's house. Hours after she disappeared, her vehicle was discovered at 17:27 and impounded at 18:23, abandoned but still running, 25 minutes from her home, on St. Clair Avenue of East St. Louis. The vehicle was entered into the police database as abandoned; allegedly the license plates of the car were not investigated, and the vehicle was not searched.[1] The family was reportedly not notified of the car being discovered until a family friend searching independently discovered it in a tow lot.[3] Upon an independent search by her family afterwards, the vehicle was discovered to still contain her glasses, purse, shoes and ID.[4]

After her disappearance, all activity on her bank accounts, cell phone and social media accounts stopped. DNA evidence gathered from her SUV indicated that there were no other individuals in the vehicle other than Coldon and her parents.

Search efforts

Her parents have independently searched for Coldon after raising allegations of a lack of effort from local police. Through the years, they have talked to local drug dealers and prostitutes for information and hired a private investigator.[2] Privately funding the search caused the family home to go into foreclosure and for the family's life savings to be drained.[1]

A two-night special television documentary on her disappearance debuted on Oxygen on November 3 and 4, 2018, in which investigative reporter Shawndrea Thomas and retired deputy Police Chief Joe Delia discussed theories on her disappearance.[3]

In 2016, her case was profiled on the podcast The Vanished.[5]

See also

References
  1. Lohr, David (2012-04-18). "Phoenix Coldon: Cruel Hoax Costs Family Of Missing Woman Their Life Savings, Home". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  2. Walker, Marlon A. "Parents continue search for missing St. Louis County woman". stltoday.com. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  3. Sederstrom, Jill (2018-10-25). "3 Theories Explaining Phoenix Coldon's Disappearance". Oxygen Official Site. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  4. "Mo. Woman Vanished 7 Years Ago — and SUV Was Found Running with Purse, Shoes and Glasses Inside". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
  5. "EPISODE 26: PHOENIX COLDON". The Vanished Podcast. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
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