Missing
Amanda Elise Southern
Southern, approximately 1993
Date and time person was reported missing : 09/18/1993
Missing location (approx) :
Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 05/25/1965 (56)
Age at the time of disappearance: 28 years old
Height / Weight : 5'1 - 5'2, 120 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A black or green Girbaud t-shirt, tan or beige shorts, and white sneakers.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, green eyes. Southern's ears are pierced and she has a scar on her abdomen. She may use the last names Hagan and/or Muhmoud.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Southern was last seen in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana on September 17, 1993. She was visiting relatives in Deville, Louisiana at the time, and she and her nephew visited the Driftwood Lounge on Highway 28, near the LaSalle Parish line.
Between 3:30 and 4:00 a.m., Southern told her nephew she was leaving with another patron and would return home in the morning. She is believed to have left with a Caucasian male called Bill or Billy. He is described as 25 to 30 years old, with brown shoulder-length hair and a full bushy beard. He was wearing a western-style hat and driving a dark blue 1988 or 1989 Ford pickup truck with a chrome front bumper.
Southern has never been heard from again. In March 1994, six months after her disappearance, her bloodstained shorts and purse were found in a wooded area in LaSalle Parish.
She left behind three children under the Age at the time of disappearance: of ten, one of whom was disabled. Their father, a Kuwaiti man, was in Jordan at the time of her disappearance, but returned and took custody of the children. (A year later, he attempted to sell the children to Southern's parents for $2,000, and was charged with child neglect and unlawful selling of human parts.)
Southern has since been declared legally dead, but her case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Office
318-744-5411
September 2021 updates and sources
Louisiana Repository for Unidentified & Missing People
The Alexandria Town Talk
The Monroe News-Star
October 12, 2004. March 30, 2020; Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: updated.
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
