AL AL- Janet Denise Hamner, 59, Tuscaloosa County, 11 August 2018

[doodles1211]

Category: Missing
Status: Active
Case Number: 18083878
Date Issued: 08/21/2018
Comments: On August 11, 2018, Janet Denise Hamner left the area of Moe’s Travel Plaza located at Highway 82W and the Pickens County line and has not returned. Her direction of travel is unknown. If anyone has any information regarding the whereabouts of Janet Denise Hamner, please contact the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office at (205) 752-0616.
Race: White
Ethnicity: White
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'3
Weight: 150 lbs.
Current Age: 59 Year(s)
Age Last Seen:
Location Last Seen: Elrod, Alabama
NCIC Number: M034761833
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Online Services

 

[doodles1211]

NAMUS

Missing Person Case

 

[doodles1211]

Searches have been conducted...

"Search crews on Thursday were combing the area around where a 59-year-woman was last seen.

On Tuesday, the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office issued an alert in the case of a Janet Denise Hamner, who has been missing since Aug. 11.

Hamner was last seen around 3:30 a.m. Aug. 11 at Moe’s Travel Plaza on U.S. Highway 82 West at the Pickens County line."

Search crews comb area where woman disappeared

 

[cybervampira]

Video at link.

Family continues search for missing Tuscaloosa Co. woman on her birthday

The passage of time has not dulled the love that friends and family still have for Janet Hamner.

She’s now been missing for six months. On Tuesday, the search for her was renewed.

Friends and family started searching again near the last place she was seen. That was Moe’s truck stop on Highway 82 in Tuscaloosa County near the Pickens County line. They felt compelled to start searching for again today because it’s Hamner’s birthday. She would be 60 years old.

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[Gardener1850]

Unidentified remains found in Walker County, AL (near Tuscaloosa): AL - Human skull found in wooded area of rural Alabama

 

[GraceG]

A question as to the timeline. She was seen at 3:30 in the morning at the Travel Plaza. Was she a truck driver? Or just out really late in her own vehicle?

 

[Cagle]

Sunday marked one year since a Tuscaloosa County woman disappeared from a truck stop on U.S. Highway 82.

Janet Hamner was last seen the the morning of Aug. 11 at Moe’s Travel Plaza. Her family members recently that the reward for information has increased to $25,000.

Family, volunteers and law enforcement have conducted extensive searches in the area near the Pickens County Line and still have no idea where she could be.

Reward increased to $25,000 one year after Janet Hamner's disappearance

 

[iulia]

Janet Denise Hamner – The Charley Project

Janet Denise Hamner

Missing Since 08/12/2018
Missing From Elrod, Alabama
Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race White
Date of Birth 02/12/1959 (61)
Age 59 years old
Height and Weight 5'3, 200 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A white top, black shorts and a houndstooth check scarf on her head.
Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Graying brown hair, green eyes. Hamner's ears are pierced. She may use the name Janet Hamner Evans.

Details of Disappearance
Hamner was last seen at at Mack’s Travel Plaza, (also known as Moe’s Travel Plaza), on Highway 82 in Elrod, Alabama at 3:00 a.m. on August 11, 2018. She placed some machine games inside the plaza, and surveillance video shows her leaving the parking lot, alone and on foot, after she was done. She has never been heard from again.

At the time of her disappearance, Hamner lived with her elderly mother. She was close to her nieces as well, and helped raise them after their mother died when they were young. It's uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning. Her case remains unsolved.

 

[Pennysmom1]

Aug 12, 2019

ONE YEAR LATER: JANET HAMNER IS STILL MISSING - WVUA 23

It’s been a year with no answers to a seemingly simple question: What happened to Janet Hamner? Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office investigators said they’ve searching for leads since she was reported missing, and the Hamner family said they’re not giving up. “There are times when it seems like...

www.wvua23.com

Aug 12, 2020

Police Continue Search For Woman Missing Since 2018

Hamner was last seen two years ago near the Pickens County line at Moe's Travel Plaza on Highway 82 West.

tuscaloosathread.com

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Online Services

app.alea.gov

 

[Find Brenda]

Thinking of Janet today

 

[Find Brenda]

A question as to the timeline. She was seen at 3:30 in the morning at the Travel Plaza. Was she a truck driver? Or just out really late in her own vehicle?

New information provided by the family on a June 2025 Facebook post corrected the timeline:


"On Saturday, August 11, 2018, 59-year-old Janet Denise Hamner of Coker, Alabama, was dropped off by her son around 3:00 PM at Mack’s Travel Plaza, also known as Moe’s Travel Plaza. She is believed to have spent the night at the truck stop, located at 17945 Highway 82 in Tuscaloosa County, playing machine games. The next morning, around 11:00 AM, surveillance footage captured Hamner leaving the parking lot on foot, heading west on Highway 82 toward Pickens County. It is unknown where she was going.

Hamner lived about 10 miles away on Jackson Trace Road in Coker with her elderly mother, but she also owned property on nearby Echola Road."

Source:
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