A 16-year-old girl has been missing from her mother's home in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills neighborhood since late June, and police are now asking the public for help finding her. Ranialya Anderson-Horne was last seen around 8 a.m. on June 30, according to a missing juvenile report, and investigators believe she may currently be in the nearby Evanston area with friends.
The report, dated Tuesday, was posted by the Cincinnati Police Department and describes the circumstances surrounding her disappearance: she reportedly went to a cousin's house and ran away from there. Anderson-Horne is Black, stands 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds, and has brown eyes and black hair, per the report. She was born March 13, 2010, and the case has been assigned number 2026-INC-015867.
Family members believe Anderson-Horne may be in the Evanston area, a neighborhood that sits just a few miles from where she was last seen in Walnut Hills. The two East Side communities are adjacent, connected along major transit corridors, and located roughly three to five miles northeast of Downtown Cincinnati near shared boundaries around Victory Parkway, according to background compiled by The Baron Group.
Who to Contact With Information
Detective J. Metz, assigned to District 2's investigations unit, is handling the case and can be reached at 513-979-4400. Anyone with information is also asked to call police dispatch at 911 or 513-765-1212, or to reach out anonymously through the regional Crime Stoppers line at 513-352-3040, which operates independently to collect confidential tips, per Local 12 WKRC.
The case falls under Cincinnati Police District 2, which absorbed Walnut Hills into its patrol jurisdiction alongside Evanston, Hyde Park, Oakley, and Madisonville following a 2023 department restructuring that eliminated District 5, according to WVXU. District 2 headquarters sits at 3295 Erie Avenue in Hyde Park and operates around the clock for walk-in crime reports and inquiries, according to the City of Cincinnati's 311 service.
How This Case Fits Statewide Patterns
The nearly six-week gap between when Anderson-Horne was last seen and when the report was made public has not been explained in available records. Ohio law under Section 2901.30 of the Ohio Revised Code requires law enforcement agencies to accept missing child reports immediately and begin location efforts without any mandatory waiting period, according to the Ohio General Assembly's statutory code.
Statewide, missing children cases like this one are overwhelmingly resolved. The Ohio Attorney General's 2025 Missing Children Clearinghouse Annual Report, released in May 2026, found that 15,367 children were reported missing across the state, with 97.8 percent, or 15,024, safely recovered by year's end. That report also found that runaway youth accounted for 7,656 of those cases, the vast majority, while non-custodial parent and stranger abductions combined made up fewer than 25 cases statewide.
Hamilton County, home to Cincinnati, recorded 1,497 missing children reports in 2023, placing it among the top four counties in Ohio for such filings, behind only Cuyahoga, Franklin, and Montgomery counties, according to the Ohio Attorney General's Office. Advocacy groups have also pointed to demographic disparities in these cases: Black children make up roughly 61 percent of all reported missing youth in Ohio despite representing just 16 percent of the state's youth population, per reporting tied to the Ohio Attorney General's data. Under a 2025 state law known as Andy Chapman's Act, law enforcement agencies are now required to enter missing person and child information into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System and NCIC databases, allowing agencies across jurisdictions to cross-reference records.
No further details about Anderson-Horne's condition or circumstances have been released. Anyone who sees her or has information about her whereabouts is urged to contact Detective Metz or police dispatch immediately.
