MO MO - Paul Smith, 19, St. Louis, 5 Feb 2005

[TheArtfulDetective]

Paul Thomas Smith

• Missing Since: February 5, 2005
• Missing From: St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri
• Classification: Missing

Description:

• Sex: Male
• Race: White/Caucasian
• Date of Birth: September 12, 1985
• Ag: 19 years old
• Height and Weight: 5'6, 220 - 230 pounds
• Hair and Eye Color: Brown hair, green eyes.
• Distinguishing Characteristics: Tattoos - a kneeling demonic angel on the back of his left shoulder, and a pit bull with green eyes on the back of his right shoulder.
• Clothing and Personal Items: Unknown
• Nicknames/Aliases: Unknown
• Identifiers: Unknown

Details of Disappearance:
Smith was last seen in St. Louis, Missouri on February 5, 2005. At the time of his disappearance, he was living with his mother in Dittmer, Missouri. Smith informed her that he and some friends were going to St. Louis that evening, approximately 40 miles away. He never returned home and has never been heard from again. Smith's friends stated he became separated from them while they were in St. Louis and haven't seen him since. Few details are available in his case. His whereabouts remain unknown.

Investigating Agency:

• St. Louis Metro Police Department 314-444-5350

Paul Thomas Smith – The Charley Project

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Anniversary of disappearance.

 

[Laughing]

Bet most of us have the same questions for these "friends."

Smith's friends stated he became separated from them while they were in St. Louis and haven't seen him since.

St. Louis is a big place. Separated at a bar, concert, park, hockey game, shopping mall?

Missing Person / NamUs #MP26905

(link on his Charley page didn't work for me.)

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Bet most of us have the same questions for these "friends."

Smith's friends stated he became separated from them while they were in St. Louis and haven't seen him since.

St. Louis is a big place. Separated at a bar, concert, park, hockey game, shopping mall?
jmho ymmv lrr

Yes agreed! WHERE in St. Louis? "Well we left the Irish pub around midnight and..????". He just walked away? Did they have a fight? Did he go buy a drink or candy bar or something and said he'd catch up and never did? The "friends" couldn't even provide a street name, a neighborhood, or the vicinity around a place they visited or anything more specific to narrow it down? Were they even interrogated? It seems like there would be way more information available had they been.

I notice a lot of St. Louis MP reports are lacking in the most basic of information similar to this. Are the investigators there that overwhelmed where they just take the report and do very little in following through? Otherwise why wouldn't these MP cases have more details of their last known whereabouts?

 

[Laughing]

Probably not too interested in a missing adult?

But, certainly this mother (and the taxpayers) deserve better.

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[SHSASUsleuth23]

**BUMPING** for Paul in July 2024-his mother and family deserves answers.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

What a tragedy.
My heart goes out to his mother. A young man spreading his wings, he was supposed to be safer in the city because he was with friends. So what happened? What kind of information did his friends provide?

His listing on Doe Network:

5147DMMO - Paul T. Smith