Jeannette Latrice Millbrook

Status:

Open

Jurisdiction:

Richmond County Sheriffs Office (GA)

Missing From:

Augusta, Georgia

Summary:

Jeannette Latrice Millbrook, a 15-year-old fraternal twin from Augusta, Georgia, disappeared on March 18, 1990, while walking home from a gas station after visiting family members to collect bus fare. She and her twin sister Dannette vanished while returning home and were never found. The case was improperly closed in 1991, the girls were removed from national missing persons registries, and it remained dormant for 22 years until reopening in 2013.

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Circumstances of Disappearance:

On March 18, 1990, after attending Sunday services at Christ Presbyterian Church, the family picked up lunch from Church's Chicken restaurant. The girls then needed bus fare to get to Lucy C. Laney High School for the week because the family had recently moved to a new apartment further from school. When they returned home, they informed their mother Louise that a man in a van had followed them for part of their walk. Later that day, the twins walked to their godfather's house to borrow money for a city bus. The twins were last known to have been seen by a gas station clerk at the Pump-N-Shop gas station on the corner of 12th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard around 4:30 pm. Many accounts state the twins never made it to their friend's home, but authorities were able to determine they did arrive there and then left at 4:00 p.m. They were last seen near the intersection of 12th Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard at approximately 4:30 p.m. They have never been heard from again.

Additional Details:

The case was closed in 1991 and was reopened in 2013. Investigators originally closed the case in April 1991 based on hearsay—the case closed because someone told police they saw the girls leaving, and their names were removed from the national registry of missing children as a consequence. In 1993, someone reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that the twins had been found, and the original case file eventually disappeared. Shanta Sturgis, who was 12 when her sisters disappeared, started a quest to get the case reopened in 2004 by regularly calling the sheriff's department. On June 5, 2013, Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree, who had just been elected in 2012, announced he was reopening the case. The twins are back up on NCMEC's site. The authorities collected DNA samples from Jeannette and Dannette's family. Still, every single clue appeared to lead to a dead end, and to this day, there haven't been any other developments in the case, although authorities insist that the investigation is still ongoing. Authorities suspected convicted sex offender Joseph Patrick Washington of being involved in the disappearance. Joseph had committed several crimes in and around the area where the twins lived. Washington, also known as the Shaw Creek Killer, was a serial killer who lived in Augusta and worked at the local brickyard, not far from the twins' old neighborhood. A still-unidentified body was discovered in 1993 in Aiken, South Carolina that was believed to be a victim of Washington's, and a facial reconstruction bears a striking resemblance to Jeannette. Her family agrees and has pushed for DNA comparison, however no tests have been completed. In 1995, Washington was handed 17 consecutive life sentences after authorities found him guilty of multiple counts of sexual assault and kidnapping. However, there was nothing to tie the disappearance to Joseph, and the convict passed away in 1999. The family is hoping to raise funds for a reward, which will be matched by Richmond County Sheriff's Office. Oxygen Media aired a two-hour television special on the case, which premiered on November 23, 2019. The Millbrook twins' disappearance is examined in the first season of The Fall Line podcast, and numerous additional podcasts such as My Favorite Murder, Thin Air, The Trail Went Cold, Unresolved, and Crime Junkie focused on the case.

Case Last Updated:

Aug 18, 2026