Andrew N. Frantz: The Record Across Three Missouri Cities
Departure, recorded contact and a later request for public help.
Abstract
Andrew N Frantz’s NamUs entry, MP104214, uses April 20, 2023 as Date of Last Contact in Kansas City, Missouri. Its narrative describes a Sedalia departure and later police contact.1
The Departure and Citation Account
The entry describes Andrew leaving a Sedalia residence alone in a white 2019 Ford Escape, then receiving a Kansas City traffic citation around 4:26 p.m. that day. It also describes his mother’s usual daily contact and the subsequent loss of contact.1
Its Sedalia agency record uses May 4 as report date and reference 2023-11046. Excelsior Springs is also listed.1
The State Poster
Missouri’s public poster identifies Andrew Frantz, age 31 at disappearance, and uses April 20 as Date of Last Contact. It labels Excelsior Springs as Missing From and names that city’s police as the contact agency.2
Those profile fields do not, by themselves, document a sequence of journeys between Sedalia, Kansas City and Excelsior Springs.2
The January Information Referral
An entry dated January 23, 2024 in Cass County Sheriff’s incident log names Andrew Frantz and records information forwarded to Excelsior Springs Police. It documents a referral of information, rather than a verified sighting.3
The entry does not identify the information’s source or what it concerned. An address where an agency logged information is not, by itself, the missing person’s location.3
The Renewed Public Appeal
KSHB 41 News Staff reported on December 10, 2025 that Excelsior Springs Police were seeking public help. The brief report used April 20, 2023 as the last-heard date and Excelsior Springs as the last-known place, without reproducing the underlying contact record.4
Sarah Motter’s KCTV report the same day also described a renewed police appeal. It attributed the April 20 last-heard date to investigators and quoted a department request for community assistance. These are accounts of an appeal, rather than two independent witness statements.5
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you locate the original citation or agency account before treating the narrative’s time and place as independently checked observations?1
Can you establish which documented event the poster’s Excelsior Springs field describes before mapping it as the next stop after Kansas City?2
Can you find what, if anything, investigators corroborated from the forwarded information before adding a new location to Andrew’s timeline?3
Can you trace the place wording in the 2025 appeal to a dated agency account, keeping the appeal date separate from the event it describes?4
Keep the dated sources and your questions in a Research File in Almost Solved. Record whether each item is a reported contact, an agency field or information awaiting corroboration. Those distinctions preserve the family’s account without filling its unanswered questions with assumptions.
Scope and Method
Original witness statements, the citation and the referred information were not inspected.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- NamUs MP104214, reviewed November 2, 2026.
- Missouri State Highway Patrol, Andrew Frantz poster; reviewed November 2026.
- Cass County Sheriff, incident log, January 23, 2024, 14:59 entry, page 2.
- KSHB 41 News Staff, Frantz public-appeal report, December 10, 2025.
- Sarah Motter, KCTV, Frantz public-appeal report, December 10, 2025.