Erica Thompson.

MUS-2026-0675

Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.

Erica Lynn Thompson, 53, was last seen on bank security video in Brookfield, Illinois, at 4:30 p.m. on September 25, 2019, making a deposit after work. She did not show up for work the next morning. Her phone was last active near Springfield, Missouri, and was found abandoned in a ditch there on October 2, 2019. Her dark purple 2014 Nissan Juke is also missing. Police have described the case as a missing person with suspicious circumstances, handled almost as if it were a homicide. No arrests have been reported, and she has never been found.

1. Sep 25, 2019

   Thompson is captured on bank video in Brookfield at 4:30 p.m., her last confirmed sighting.

2. Sep 26, 2019

   Her phone is last active near Springfield, Missouri. She does not show up for work.

3. Oct 2, 2019

   Her cell phone is found abandoned in a ditch in Springfield, Missouri.

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