A 16-year-old Cleveland girl has been missing for more than a week, and police are asking anyone with information to come forward. Emonie Haymon was last known to be in Cleveland and has been missing since July 30, according to the Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation missing persons database.
The Ohio Attorney General's BCI database describes Haymon as a Black female standing 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 118 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. As reported by FOX 8 News, the Cleveland Police Department is the lead agency investigating her disappearance, and tips can be submitted at (216) 623-5262.
Before she went missing, Haymon competed in regional youth track and field sprint events in Northeast Ohio, including meets with the club Ohio Elite Athletics, according to results logged by Ohio MileSplit. Her background as a student-athlete adds a personal dimension to a case that, so far, has released few other details about the circumstances of her disappearance.
FOX 8 Partners With Cleveland Kidnapping Survivor on the Search
FOX 8 is working with Amanda Berry, who survived a decade of captivity in Cleveland before escaping in 2013, to help find missing people across Northeast Ohio, per the station's report. Berry joined FOX 8 to host daily broadcast segments dedicated to spotlighting missing children and adults, a partnership she launched to give other missing local residents the kind of public visibility her own case lacked for years, according to Cleveland Scene. The public is asked to call 1-866-492-6833 with any information related to Haymon's case.
Cleveland's history with high-profile missing-person and captivity cases has also shaped other community resources available to families. Gina DeJesus, another Cleveland captivity survivor, co-founded the nonprofit Cleveland Missing, known formally as the Cleveland Family Center for Missing Children and Adults, which offers free support, guidance, and search assistance to families of missing individuals, according to the organization's own account of its founding, Cleveland Missing.
Cuyahoga County's Outsized Share of Missing Youth Cases
Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, consistently logs among the highest volumes of missing children reports of any county in Ohio, with more than 2,300 reported youth cases annually, according to Forbes. Statewide, the numbers tell a somewhat more reassuring story. The 2025 Ohio Missing Children Clearinghouse Annual Report, released in May, found that 15,367 children were reported missing across Ohio last year, a decrease of 1,037 cases from 2024, per Richland Source.
That same report found that 97.8 percent of reported missing children statewide, or 15,024 youth, were safely recovered by the end of the year. Richland Source notes that 7,656 of those cases involved runaways who left home without permission, while stranger abductions remained rare, with only two reported statewide in all of 2025.
New State Law Targets Long-Term Missing Person Cases
Ohio lawmakers have also moved to close reporting gaps in long-running missing person investigations. In March, the Ohio House of Representatives passed House Bill 217, known as the FIND Act, which requires local law enforcement statewide to submit missing person cases to the federal NamUs database once an individual remains missing for 30 days, according to The Columbus Dispatch. It is not yet clear whether Haymon's case, which has now stretched past that 30-day threshold, has been entered into NamUs.
For now, Cleveland police and FOX 8's missing-persons partnership with Amanda Berry remain the primary avenues for the public to help. Anyone with information about Emonie Haymon's whereabouts is urged to contact Cleveland Police directly or call the tip line noted above.
