FBI continues investigation 8 years after Lashaya Stine’s disappearance

AURORA, Colorado – Eight years later, the Denver office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is still investigating the disappearance of Lashaya Stine.

On July 15, 2016, Lashaya, then 16, left her home in Aurora around 2 a.m. According to the FBI, she was last seen in the early morning hours in the area of ​​E. Montview Boulevard and N. Peoria Street.

Lashaya was scheduled to have an interview on July 16, but she never showed up. She has not been heard from since.

Surveillance video from July 2016 shows Lashaya walking alone near her mother’s home in Aurora. Her mother, Sabrina Jones, believes Lashaya was out to meet a boy she believes was a bad influence on her daughter, a straight-A student at George Washington High School. This is the last known video of the then-16-year-old.

The last credible tip about Lashaya came a few years ago when someone said they saw her at a hotel in East Colfax. But nothing ever came of it and the hotline has been quiet since then.

It wasn’t for a lack of effort from the Aurora Police Department. They searched and asked the public for help. In November 2020, the FBI searched a home on Lansing Street in Aurora for three days but found nothing.

Sabrina believes the trail was lost because Lashaya was taken out of the country.

“I used to be so scared that someone was going to tell me she died,” Lashaya’s mother said in 2022. “But now it’s like… I’m at the point now where, whatever it is, please someone help me find out what happened to her. More than anything in the world, even if it means the worst, I just want to know what happened to her… good or bad. If she’s out there living her best life, I want to know about it. If she’s living under another identity, I just want to know that. If my baby is no longer alive, I want to know that.”

Lashaya would now be 24 years old. At the time of her disappearance, she was 5’6″ tall and weighed 140 pounds. She had long black hair (usually tied in a bun) and brown eyes. She has a round scar on her chest the size of a quarter.

Lashaya was last seen wearing a black V-neck t-shirt, black stonewash jeans, silver hoop earrings, and a silver watch on her left arm.

Anyone with information on Lashaya’s whereabouts is asked to call Aurora police at 303-627-3100 or Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

Federal Office of Investigation