Shannon Marie Hawkins -- Missing Since July 2010

Missing Person: Shannon Marie Hawkins
Last-contact date: July 31st, 2010 at about noon by Paul Hawkins, her husband
The area where the MP was last seen: St. Johns, Florida possibly at the 100-block of Nottingham Drive East in St. Johns

Link to government source: NamUs #MP9331

VITAL DETAILS

Ethnicity: White
Sex: Female
Age at time of disappearance: 35 years old
Birthdate: December 1974

Hair: Red/auburn
Eyes: Brown
Scar: None known
Height/weight: 5-foot-5 and 135 to 140 pounds
BMI*: Shannon Marie Hawkins was in the normal range for BMI.

• BMI is body mass index. It relates to an individual's height and weight.

Shannon Marie Hawkins, a missing person, was last heard from on July 31st, 2010 when she was 35 years old. This is a case where details are not included with NamUs. Accordingly, it's necessary to look at other sources in order to find information on this missing person.

According to one source, this person had a history of leaving her family home for long periods of time (staugustine.com). However, the best description of the events surrounding this person's disappearance was at CharleyProject.org. According to that website, this is a person that was having mental-health problems leading up to her disappearance. The following points should be noted of Shannon Marie Hawkins:

• She was previously hospitalized for depression;
• She had a history of suicide attempts;
• Her husband felt that she was "uneasy" the last time he saw her;
• She called a mental-health hotline the night before she disappeared;
• She wrote in a personal journal that she wanted to commit acts of self-harm in a wooded area behind her home and expressed pessimism about living to see the age of 36.

I was interested in looking at the wooded area behind her home on Google Maps. I was able to find this missing person's exact street address. I am not publishing it here but I feel like I know the wooded area that she was talking about. It would be at Google Maps coordinates 30.080773011684176, -81.61199853938336.

It doesn't look that large but it seems like the area had several wooded areas, some larger and some smaller than the one directly behind her house. Furthermore, there are small lakes or ponds in the area.

What stands out with this case, is that she disappeared 11 years ago. If the clue to her whereabouts in her journal is true, then there is a question as to why she has not yet been found. However, my inclination is that she is, in fact, close to her home still.

One article I read at CBS News indicated that police dogs were used to search the area but to no avail. She did not take a vehicle with her so reasonable walking distance might be the best-continued search area. Even after police supposedly scour an area, it doesn't actually mean that a missing person isn't there. There have been many cases where missing people have shown up in an area that was already searched. However, I think she simply took a longer walk than what the police originally assumed.

Please share this article to social media using hashtags that are related to where the missing person went missing from, which is St. Johns, Florida.

Author: Shane Lambert

All articles are subject to editing after the original posting.

Shane Lambert is not a Private Investigator, however, he is currently studying to be one as of February 2021.

Website hashtag: #MPCSL

*For BMI values, I use the UPPER or HIGHER ranges that are given for height and weight.
**Text might be paraphrased. If taken verbatim, then grammar or spelling errors are not necessarily corrected from original sources.
Disclaimer: Whenever possible, government sources are preferred for getting the details of a missing person. However, any source that the article writer deems potentially reliable may be used.