Sonya Marie Rouse

• Missing Since 03/05/2016
• Missing From Chicago, Illinois
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race Black
• Date of Birth 08/11/1965 (59)
• Age 50 years old
• Height and Weight 5'8, 160 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description A blonde wig. Possibly carrying a purse.
• Medical Conditions Rouse suffers from bipolar disorder and emotional problems. She also has a history of substance abuse and has been in rehab, but relapsed after getting out.
• Distinguishing Characteristics African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Rouse was wearing a blonde curly wig at the time of her disappearance. She has very large breasts, her ears are pierced and she has previously broken her nose.

Details of Disappearance

Rouse was last seen in the vicinity of south Champlain Avenue and east 75th Street in Chicago, Illinois at 11:00 p.m. on March 5, 2016. She has never been heard from again.

Rouse graduated from Illinois State University with a journalism degree; she dreamed of becoming a broadcast journalist. After college and giving birth to a daughter, she developed mental health conditions and started abusing substances to cope. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and her mother took custody of her daughter.

She had an arrangement with her mother where her mother would reach out to her every few days by text or calling, and would go to the police if she didn't hear back from her.

Rouse was in an abusive relationship with her live-in boyfriend at the time of her disappearance, and her mother believes he could have been involved in her case. He was imprisoned after Rouse's disappearance, and a corrections official offered to arrange a police interview with him, but the police declined. They never did interview him and he died about a year after his release from prison.

The circumstances of her disappearance are unclear, but her mother believes she came to harm.