LIST: Myrtle Beach Police Department missing person cases

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) – The Myrtle Beach Police Department has over 20 open missing person cases on file, including one that was in the national spotlight.

WMBF News is taking a closer look at missing person cases in the Grand Strand and bringing them to light.

If anyone has any information on these cases that could help investigators, you’re asked to call the Myrtle Beach Police Department at 843-918-1300.

Below is a list of missing person cases that the department gave to WMBF News. The department only provided the names and police report numbers. We have gone through our archives to get more information on these cases:

Berenice Valdivia Morales:

No information was provided on the disappearance.

Lakeshia Turner:

According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), 27-year-old Lakeshia Turner was last seen Oct. 31, 2006, in Myrtle Beach. The organization states that Turner was last seen by her family in 2006 and in June 2008, her boyfriend dropped off Turner’s son and said that she was in jail in Georgia. There has been no contact with Turner since that date.

Johnny Lamar Brown:

According to the CUE Center for Missing Persons, Johnny Brown was last seen on Aug. 5, 2012. He is from Cartersville, Georgia and was visiting Myrtle Beach with his family. The CUE Center shows Brown and his family were staying at the Sea Crest hotel along Ocean Boulevard. He was last seen walking away from his hotel and talking to a woman near an ice cream shop. His loved ones believe he may have tried to get back home to Cartersville, but there’s no evidence he ever arrived.

Matthew Jaggard Scheer:

No information was provided on the disappearance.

Pedro Chavez-Matom:

No information was provided on the disappearance.

Juan Terraza-Sanchez:

Juan Terraza-Sanchez, 17, was last seen around 6 a.m. on March 20, 2017. A flyer from the Myrtle Beach Police Department doesn’t state where the teenager was last seen but said he was possibly headed to North Carolina or New York.

Elijah Rence Mazo Borjal:

No information was provided on the disappearance.

Thomas Manuel Dias:

Thomas Manuel Dias, 37 was last heard from on May 11, 2019. WMBF News spoke to Dias’ mother who said that he decided to leave Florida and explore the Grand Strand. He arrived on May 7, 2019, and four days later he was last seen arguing with a friend outside of Old Chicago Pizza in Murrells Inlet. Police said Dias rode off on his bicycle and hasn’t been seen since.

Ruth Holley:

No information was provided on the disappearance.

Sarah Cicconetti:

No information was provided on the disappearance.

Heather Lynn Carlough and Brian Nicholas Hicks:

No information was provided on the disappearance.

Christopher Dawson Atala:

No information was provided on the disappearance.

Jason Malpass:

No information was provided on the disappearance.

The Myrtle Beach Police Department’s list also shows there are six juveniles considered missing, but those names were not provided due to their ages.

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