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According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day. Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends. Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.

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Lutricia Steele






Steele, date, approximate 2008
Date Missing 05/01/2008
Missing From
Schenectady, New York
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 01/25/1981 (41)
Age 27 years old
Height and Weight 5'4 - 5'6, 100 - 125 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A black sweatshirt, blue jeans and black shoes.
Medical Conditions Steele may have been pregnant at the time of her disappearance. She was on disability for a back injury.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Steele has the following tattoos: a tiger on her ankle, a ribbon with the name "Shawn" on her left arm, the word "Kasin" on her chest, a flower with writing on her lower back, and a leopard on her leg. Her ears, tongue and nose are pierced. Steele may use the last names Zasa and/or Zasa-Steele. Her nicknames are Trish and TiTi. Her hair was dyed blonde at the time of her disappearance, but its natural color is brown.
Details of Disappearance Steele was last seen on May 1, 2008. At 2:00 p.m., she left the home she shared with her mother in the 1100 block of Webster Street in Schenectady, New York. She said she would be back in two hours to pick up her two young children and go to a barbecue.
Steele cashed a check and ran some personal errands. She never returned home and has never been heard from again. She did not have a car at the time of her disappearance. Her life before her disappearance had been troubled. She was raised mostly in foster care and, as an adult, she worked for a time at a strip club and allegedly sold marijuana on occasion. She accused her youngest child's father of rape, and his trial was supposed to start in May 2009, the same month Steele disappeared. She was supposed to testify against him. The man was reportedly in jail when she disappeared. The day she vanished, Steele told a female friend that she was pregnant and would see the doctor that same day to find out how far the pregnancy had progressed. She apparently did arrive for her doctor's appointment. In mid-April 2009, about two weeks before she went missing, Steele asked her half-sister to take care of two of her four children for a month. Steele's half-sister said she would only do so if she were given temporary custody. Steele refused to do that. Her brother offered to take the children instead, but she turned him down.
After Steele's disappearance, her two older children were placed with their father, Steele's ex-husband; the younger two were placed with their grandmother. It's uncharacteristic of Steele to leave without warning or abandon her children.
She owned a prepaid cellular phone that disappeared with her. The police tried the number several times after her disappearance and the cell phone kept functioning for awhile, but no calls were ever made from it. She was receiving disability payments for a back injury and the checks continued to come in the mail after she went missing.
Steele's remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Schenectady Police Department
518-788-6566
Other
The Schenectady Daily Gazette
The Albany Times Union
Capital News 9
North American Missing Persons Network
New York State Troopers
MySpace Page for Lutricia Steele
NamUs
New York State Police News

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Resources for Missing Persons

According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day. Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends. Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.

Missing Person Case Updates with Photos