Donald Waters, Jr., 63, has not been seen since October 6, 2026. Cleveland police are seeking information about his case, which FOX 8 has included in its coverage of missing people in Northeast Ohio.
According to FOX 8 News, Cleveland police are seeking Waters, who has been missing since October 6, 2026. The station reports it is working with Amanda Berry to help investigators track him down, part of an ongoing effort to keep missing-person cases from northeast Ohio in the public eye.
Berry’s Long-Running Push to Find the Missing
Berry’s involvement with Waters’s case fits a pattern she has built over years at the station. According to FOX 8 Cleveland WJW, she took a job hosting the station’s missing-person segments, working with local police departments and highlighting cases all over northeast Ohio. Each day, she features a different missing person from the region, working directly with local detectives to get cases publicized.
That work has drawn attention from federal authorities before. In 2020, the U.S. Marshals took notice of her missing-person segments and asked her to be part of Operation Safety Net, an effort that helped locate dozens of missing children across northeast Ohio, as reported by FOX 8 Cleveland WJW.
Ohio Alerts and Missing-Person Resources
Ohio’s statewide emergency alert program has specific eligibility and activation requirements. According to Ohio Revised Code Section 5502.522, a person must meet at least one listed age or impairment criterion, including being 65 or older or having a qualifying impairment; the law does not establish whether Waters meets those criteria or whether an alert was issued. For other case information, the Ohio Attorney General’s 2022 Annual Missing Persons Report described the Missing Persons Unit website as a resource where visitors could view case information, submit tips and print posters for specific cases.
Anyone with information is encouraged to come forward as police continue looking into his case.
