Missing
Racine Lamour Taliaferro
Taliaferro, approximately 2014; Scar on Taliaferro's arm; Some of Taliaferro's tattoos; Jonathon McMahen
Date and time person was reported missing : 04/26/2014
Missing location (approx) :
Detroit, Michigan
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
Black
DOB : 11/26/1986 (34)
Age at the time of disappearance: 27 years old
Height / Weight : 4'11, 135 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A black shirt, a red leather vest and black pants.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Taliaferro had copper-colored highlights in her hair at the time of her disappearance. Her navel, left eyebrow and right upper lip are pierced and her ears are triple-pierced. Taliaferro has a long keloid scar on her forearm, extending from wrist to elbow. She has the following tattoos: the word "Loyalty" across her upper chest, paw prints down her right side extending from shoulder to foot, writing on the side of her neck, an unspecified tattoo on her lower back, and several tattoos on her arms, including the name "Will" and a face with a cigarette in its mouth, on her upper right arm. Photos of Taliaferro's scar and some of her tattoos are posted with this case summary.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Taliaferro was last seen in Detroit, Michigan on April 26, 2014. She lived with her boyfriend, Johnathon Michael McMahen, at the time of her disappearance; a photo of him is posted with this case summary.
McMahen was a member of the Satan's Sidekicks Motorcycle Club. According to the club rules, only men can be members, and women are considered to be property of the men. While she was seeing him, Taliaferro was also intimately involved with other men, including at least one other member of the motorcycle club. Her relationship with the other club member was widely known within the club.
Taliaferro was last seen while in a heated argument with McMahen at the club headquarters in the 48300 block of east Davidson between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. They got into an altercation in the restroom which turned physical. Taliaferro was heard telling McMahen she didn't want to leave the club with him, and McMahen tried to bodily pull her out of the club.
She removed the motorcycle colors she had been wearing, clothes which proclaimed her to be McMahen's property, and seemed very angry and afraid. Witnesses saw McMahen pin her to the floor with a knife at her neck. Later, the couple went outside and Taliaferro sat in the passenger seat of McMahen's black GMC Jimmy pickup truck. McMahen stood in front of her, blocking her exit, and they continued to argue.
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