Christina Maxine Whittaker: The Hannibal Record
A mother’s disappearance, her family’s accounts and the dated record.
Abstract
NamUs MP3264 records November 13, 2009 as Christina Maxine Whittaker’s Date of Last Contact in Hannibal, Missouri. She was twenty-one.1
A Mother and Daughter
Rajah Maples’s November 2024 WGEM report interviews Christina’s mother, Cindy Young, and daughter, Alexandria. Alexandria described growing up without her mother to share important first experiences. Cindy described finding comfort in crafts in Christina’s former bedroom. Their accounts preserve the family’s experience of absence.2
Harold Smith’s November 13, 2017 KHMO report describes family and friends gathering at a New London church on the preceding Sunday. That is the location of a later gathering, rather than Christina’s last-seen location.3
The Night in the Record
NamUs describes Christina leaving Rookies Sports Bar on Broadway at approximately 23:30. Hannibal Police Department’s case number is 2009-30080. The agency’s report-date field gives November 14, separately from the November 13 contact date.1
An anniversary report’s age wording belongs with its publication date. It should not silently replace the age at disappearance in the case record.3
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you identify the statement behind the departure time while keeping the later reporting date separate?1
Can you distinguish a family member’s hope from a documented finding about Christina’s whereabouts?2
Can you place the anniversary gathering on its own timeline instead of treating its location as evidence of Christina’s movements?3
Keep the source, event date and unanswered question in a Research File in Almost Solved. Published recollections should remain attributed as you compare them.
Show later developments and reported outcomes
Later Records and Appeals
NamUs says Christina’s phone was found in the road a block from the tavern the following morning. An object’s location does not establish a complete route traveled by its owner.1
KHMO’s 2017 report attributes beliefs about Christina’s whereabouts to her mother. It does not publish an underlying police sighting record; those beliefs are not adopted as confirmed findings here.3
In the 2024 WGEM report, Detective Jordan Freiling described the case as open and said police continued following leads. The family also described distress over television portrayals. These are dated statements, not a confirmed outcome.2
Original witness statements and the complete investigative file were not inspected. No present whereabouts or explanation for the disappearance is established here.
Scope and Method
Original witness statements and the complete investigative file 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, MP3264; reviewed November 3, 2026.
- Rajah Maples, WGEM, family interviews, November 13, 2024, local time.
- Harold Smith, KHMO, anniversary-gathering report, November 13, 2017.