Alexis Scott NamUs MP #40059: Missing Since September 2017 from Peoria, Illinois

By: Shane Lambert
Original time of writing: October 2nd, 2017
Revisited: January 28th, 2025

Alexis Scott is missing out of Peoria, Illinois. She was added to the NamUs Missing Person website on Sunday, October 1st, 2017. She went missing just eight days earlier on Saturday, September 23rd, 2017 at about 4am to 6am. That makes for a very short gap between her last-seen time and her NamUs-profile-created time.



NamUs offered the following circumstances (original time of publication): 


"Alexis was last seen at a house party, 123 Richmond Avenue Peoria, IL on 09/23/17 between the hours of 4-6am. "Witness" states that she left on foot after 5:30am but that’s yet to be confirmed."
  • Note, these circumstances did not change when this profile was revisited on January 28th, 2025


The blurb at NamUs is a little strange in that they chose to quote the word "Witness" instead of just writing the word straight as there is no need to quote someone in that instance. Furthermore, it's bad grammar as it should be, "A witness." It's unclear if they are using that word in a sarcastic sense, which would normally involve single quotations. I wondered if they were trying to communicate something additional to the face value of the comments.

Description:

  • Black female, long hair
  • Tattoos on right shoulder: Paw Prints (see below), Inner Arm: Royalty (cursive), Left Wrist: Trevon (cursive)
  • Blue jeans, half shirt & pink jacket
  • 20 years old
  • Has a piercing on the right side of her face below her mouth
  • 63 inches to 68 inches (5'3" to 5'8") and 120 to 140 pounds


Media coverage: Minimal


Commentary:

  • My opinion: date-rape scenarios can't be discounted based on the house-party setting
  • The individual answering at her Facebook page said she had no vehicle
  • The same individual spoke to possible filmed sightings at a Taco Bell and a gas station between 4am and 5am. This would contradict the witness sighting of her leaving the party at 5:30am, unless she returned from the Taco Bell/gas station and then left again a little while later, which certainly is not impossible.
  • The nearest Taco Bell is half a block north with hours of operation on Saturday mornings opening at 7am
  • A more modern news piece said that she never left the party (from 2024)
Snippet was taken in 2017.

  • Her Facebook page is under her alias, Alexis Camry
  • Her last post is September 23rd, 2017 at 3:46am (see below)


  • She had over 2400 Facebook friends, including 34 recently-added ones


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