Heather Danielle Cannon

• Missing Since 08/27/2009
• Missing From Athens, Texas
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 03/28/1994 (31)
• Age 15 years old
• Height and Weight 5'5, 140 - 150 pounds
• Distinguishing Characteristics White female. Sandy brown hair, green eyes. Heather's ears, navel and tongue are pierced. She wears eyeglasses.

Details of Disappearance

Heather disappeared from Athens, Texas on August 27, 2009. She was spending the week with her biological father, Jerral Allen Whitley, in a house off Private Road 6802. He says she disappeared while he was work, taking all her clothes with her. Her mother reported her to police as a runaway on September 5.

The night before her disappearance, Heather had called her mother and was upset that her mother wouldn't let her move to be with her boyfriend in Colorado. There's no evidence she ever arrived in Colorado after she went missing.

Whitley refused to take a polygraph test after Heather's disappearance and said he thought Heather was with her mother. He was later incarcerated in Florida for drug offenses and grand theft. He was imprisoned for 18 months before being released in October 2014. A photo of him is posted with this case summary.

Heather had previously traveled to Florida and New York. She is considered missing under suspicious circumstances and foul play is suspected.