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. 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 Lawrencd Coldon thus changing her name to Phoenix Coldon. During the Oxygen special, it is discovered that there were only 4 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 u spoke to the home owner-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. Disappearance: Coldon disappeared on December 18, 2011, after leaving her family home in a black 1998 Chevy Blazer at about 15:00 local time. 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 (this has been proved incorrect, initally reported the vehicle was still running with the door open, but that is not the case. The responding officer who found the vehicle stated that the vehicle was parked as if it was left intentionally, not running- all doors closed), 25 minutes from her home, on St. Clair Avenue of East St. Louis. The vehicle was entered into the police database as abandoned, and allegedly the license plates of the car were not investigated, and the vehicle was not searched. The family was reportedly not notified of the car being discovered until a family friend searching independently discovered it in a tow lot. Upon an independent search by her family afterwards, the vehicle was discovered to still contain her glasses, purse, shoes and ID. 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. Privately funding the search caused the family home to go into foreclosure and for the family's life savings to be drained. 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.