Philadelphia police are asking for the public's help finding Camille Randall, a 58-year-old woman last seen leaving her residence on the 5500 block of Morris Street in Germantown at approximately 2:10 p.m. on September 15. She was wearing a jean jacket, a jean jumpsuit, and a black hoodie when she disappeared.
The Philadelphia Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in locating Randall, according to Newport Dispatch. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact the Northwest Detective Division at 215-686-3353.
This is not the first time Randall has vanished from that same address. On March 1, police issued a missing person bulletin after she went missing from the 5500 block of Morris Street on February 27, according to the Philadelphia Police Department. In that earlier alert, police described Randall as approximately 5 feet tall and 150 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair, and noted she was known to frequent the area around Broad Street and Erie Avenue.
A Repeat Disappearance From the Same Block
Randall's Morris Street home sits in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood, within the jurisdiction of the 39th Police District, headquartered at 2201 West Hunting Park Avenue. Missing person investigations that originate in the 39th District, including Randall's case, are handled by the Northwest Detective Division, located at 5960 North Broad Street.
The Broad Street and Erie Avenue corridor that Randall was known to frequent during her earlier disappearance is a major North Philadelphia transit hub and commercial strip. That earlier pattern could shape where investigators and the public focus their search this time, though police have not said whether Randall was seen there again this month.
How Missing Adult Cases Move Through Philadelphia Police
Under Philadelphia Police Department Directive 12.13, detective division supervisors must ensure investigators re-interview the person who filed a missing person report within 72 hours and maintain weekly contact for at least 30 days, as Hoodline has previously reported. Neither Pennsylvania state law nor department directives require any waiting period before filing or investigating a missing adult report, meaning families can and should report someone missing immediately rather than waiting.
Pennsylvania does maintain a separate Missing Endangered Person Advisory System, created under Senate Bill 976 in 2010, which allows law enforcement to issue public alerts through state police for missing persons of any age considered at special risk due to health, disability, or environmental factors, according to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is not clear from available records whether that advisory system has been invoked in Randall's case.
Randall's disappearance adds to a string of missing person cases Hoodline has covered across Northwest Philadelphia this year, including a 70-year-old Germantown woman last seen on the very same Morris Street block and a West Oak Lane teen who vanished this month. Nationally, the Department of Justice-funded National Missing and Unidentified Persons System notes that more than 600,000 missing person reports are generated nationwide each year, though the vast majority are resolved within the same year.
Anyone with information about Camille Randall's current whereabouts is urged to reach out to investigators directly rather than wait, given the lack of any mandatory delay in Pennsylvania for reporting or acting on missing adult cases.
