Savannah Hale: Family, Camera Accounts and the Search
Dated accounts of contact, locations and a continuing family search.
Abstract
NamUs MP91353 lists May 4, 2022, as Savannah Hale’s Date of Last Contact in Shreveport, Louisiana. The record names Shreveport Police Department reference 22-058096.1
The First Contact Record
The registry’s report-date field also gives May 4. Its narrative describes a bar departure on Tuesday, May 3, and family contact on May 4. Those entries concern different events. A departure the previous evening is not automatically the final contact or a complete account of where Savannah went afterward.1
Alex Onken’s May 7, 2022, KSLA appeal identifies Savannah as twenty-two and repeats that her family last heard from her May 4. It describes a gray 2012 Kia Forte and black clothing. The hair color and other physical descriptions belong to that dated appeal; they are not verified descriptions of her appearance in November 2026.2
The appeal asks people with information to contact Shreveport police. Its publication establishes that a public appeal existed by May 7, rather than proving that a new sighting occurred on the day it appeared.2
A Student and Her Family’s Account
Destinee Patterson’s July 26, 2022, KSLA interview describes Savannah as a Louisiana State University-Shreveport student, according to her mother. Her mother recalled an outing with Savannah’s boyfriend, returning home and Savannah leaving later. The report also places a last-seen account at the Louisiana Tower parking garage. These are published accounts, not independently inspected footage or statements.3
Her mother described how difficult it was to reconcile Savannah’s absence with the daughter she knew. Friends and relatives organized an awareness group. Their persistence matters as part of Savannah’s story, while the family’s understanding of her character cannot by itself establish what happened after she left.3
Cameras, Phones and Publicity
Miracle Garrett’s April 2025 KSLA report describes filming for America’s Most Wanted: Missing Persons Edition. Corporal Chris Bordelon said the production spoke with detectives and relatives. The report also refers to a North Market Street gas-station camera account. Filming and interviews are documented publicity work, not independent proof of the movements described.4
The same article reuses a statement from Savannah’s mother’s 2022 interview. Republishing that statement in 2025 does not make it a new interview or a later contact with Savannah.4
Rachael Thomas’s December 19, 2025, KSLA report attributes downtown cellphone activity in the 300 block of Travis Street to police. It also says investigators placed Savannah in the North Market area during an evening. The underlying logs were not reproduced. Camera references, phone activity and family contact cannot safely be joined into a precise route without their dates, times and evidentiary basis.5
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you identify the original observation behind each garage or gas-station camera account before ordering the movements?3,4
Can you distinguish a person’s documented location from a phone’s reported activity and identify the clock and date used for each?5
Can you separate a volunteer’s proposed search area from evidence that Savannah or her car was actually there?7
Save the source, date and unresolved question in a Research File in Almost Solved. You can help make the timeline more precise without guessing why Savannah disappeared, treating a location as established because it was searched, or drawing conclusions about people mentioned in an account.
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Later Civilian Search Reports
Payton Manuel’s March 2026 KSLA report describes Adventures with Purpose as a civilian group without law-enforcement affiliation. Members explained their use of sonar and the difficulty of changing sediment. The report says six vehicles had been found across eight searches, none belonging to Savannah. Those are attributed search results, not independently inspected vehicle-identification records.6
The group described returning to locations because underwater conditions can change. Its account explains the purpose of repeated searches; it does not demonstrate that a specific location contains Savannah’s car.6
In Manuel’s August 2026 report, co-founder Jared Leisek described community tips suggesting additional search areas. A March visit’s smaller vehicle tally is not necessarily inconsistent with an earlier cumulative count. The periods and searches being counted need to match before you compare them. Neither report establishes Savannah’s present location.7
Scope and Method
Original camera footage, phone logs, witness statements and investigative files 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, MP91353; reviewed November 2, 2026.
- Alex Onken, KSLA, Hale appeal, May 7, 2022.
- Destinee Patterson, KSLA, Hale family interview, July 26, 2022.
- Miracle Garrett, KSLA, filming report, April 2025.
- Rachael Thomas, KSLA, police appeal, December 19, 2025.
- Payton Manuel, KSLA, volunteer-search report, March 2026.
- Payton Manuel, KSLA, volunteer-search report, August 2026.