Missing Persons Case Remains Active in Richmond Heights

*Editor's note: An earlier version of this article and its accompanying headline incorrectly identified 33 people as having gone missing from Clayton. A state database lists the city only because the St. Louis County Police Department, to whom missing persons cases are reported, is headquartered in the city.

More than 30 Missouri adults who remained missing as of last week are identified in a statewide database as having disappeared from or . But nearly all of those cases are identified with Clayton only because the , to whom missing persons cases are reported, is headquartered there.*

None of the cases involve someone who disappeared from the city of Clayton.

It appears just one of the 34 cases involving men, women and teenagers has direct ties to the Clayton-Richmond Heights Patch area. The outstanding case is that of Heather Kullorn, who disappeared from Richmond Heights.

Sgt. Doug Schaeffler of the Richmond Heights Police Department confirmed that case, which began in July 1999, remains active.

The number represents a snapshot from a Missouri State Highway Patrol database updated regularly to add new missing persons and remove those whose location has been identified.

(View the complete adult missing-persons database.)

In 2011, more than 730 adults and more than 1,700 children were reported missing in St. Louis County, the Highway Patrol's website states. As of Thursday, 53 of the adults (7 percent) and 120 of the juveniles (also 7 percent) had not been found.

Outstanding adult missing-persons cases from the 34 St. Louis County cases reviewed by Patch date back to 1999.

As of Wednesday, of the persons actively missing in those cases:

• Ten disappeared in 2011, five of them in December. Six missing-person cases from 2007 remain outstanding, as do four from 2004.
• Just over half are men (18); sixteen are women.
• Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) are black. Roughly a third (32 percent) are white.
• More than a third (35 percent) would now be in their 20s. Nearly a fifth (18 percent) would be in their 30s, and another fifth (18 percent) would be in their 50s.
• The oldest would now be 85. The youngest would be 17.