Keeshae Jacobs

Keeshae Jacobs, 21, disappeared in Richmond, Virginia after visiting a male friend's home on September 26, 2016. She texted her mother, Toni Jacobs, that she had arrived safely and would see her the next day; she was never heard from again. Richmond Police publicly stated in November 2017 that they believed foul play was involved, and in 2023 named a man, Otis Tucker, as a suspect in her disappearance; Tucker had given Jacobs's mother conflicting accounts of when he last saw her. In November 2022, Tucker was separately arrested and charged with second-degree murder and evidence tampering in the death of a different woman in Florida. He has never been charged in connection with Jacobs's disappearance. No arrest has been made and Keeshae has never been found.

Richmond, VA

• 2016: Case opens — victim reported missing or found.
• Documented milestones (renewed investigation, media coverage, family advocacy) to be added as sourced.
• Present: case remains unresolved. No named suspect has been convicted.

• Jacobs's identity, age, and the September 26, 2016 disappearance after visiting a friend's home in Richmond's Church Hill neighborhood, per Richmond Police statements and her mother's account.
• Richmond Police publicly stated in November 2017 that they suspected foul play in her disappearance.
• In 2023, Richmond Police told local media their detectives consider Otis Tucker a suspect; Jacobs's mother has said Tucker gave her conflicting accounts of when he last saw her daughter.
• In November 2022, Tucker was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the death of a woman in Jacksonville, Florida — a case separate from Jacobs's disappearance.
• Jacobs's case is featured in the HBO Max docuseries "Black and Missing" and an NBC "Dateline: Missing in America" episode, both examining the comparatively limited media and law enforcement attention her case received relative to some missing white women's cases.

• What specifically happened to Jacobs after she was last seen at the friend's home has never been established.
• Whether Tucker's arrest and conviction in the unrelated Florida case has any evidentiary connection to Jacobs's disappearance has not been stated by investigators.
• Jacobs's mother has said the FBI, to her knowledge, had not opened a federal investigation into the case as of 2021; whether that status has since changed has not been confirmed publicly.

• NBC News / Dateline — “Dateline Missing in America podcast covers 2016 disappearance of Keeshae Jacobs”
• WWBT NBC12 — “‘I just want justice’: Investigation continues into disappearance of Keeshae Jacobs”
• CBS News — “These families want help finding Keeshae Jacobs, Mary Johnson, Alicia Navarro and hundreds of other missing people”
• NamUs — Missing Person Case #MP35792
• Project Cold Case
• Murder Accountability Project
• NamUs