MUS-2026-0645
Archive card
MUS-2026-0645
Missing person
- Incident
- 2000
- Indexed
- Nov 4, 2026, by MuseUnsolved
- Agency
- See coverage below
- Location
- Pickensville AL
Public record. Index entry.
Index entry. Case details compiled from public reporting; our researchers have not verified this file yet.
Summary
What happened, as the record shows.
Shelia Diane Hughes, 29, nine months pregnant and staying with her sister in Aliceville, Alabama, was picked up on the night of September 1, 2000. Around 1 a.m. on September 2, police stopped the car at a roadblock in Pickensville and confirmed Shelia was the passenger, her last confirmed sighting. The driver said he dropped her at her sister's around 3 a.m.; her sister says she never returned. He was never charged in connection with her disappearance and died in 2013. About a month later her purse and slippers were found in a cotton field in Noxubee County, Mississippi, roughly 20 miles away. She was declared legally dead in February 2008.
Timeline
What the record establishes.
- Sep 2, 2000
Last confirmed sighting as a passenger during a roadblock stop in Pickensville at about 1 a.m.
- Oct 2000
Her purse and slippers are recovered in a cotton field in Noxubee County, Mississippi.
- Feb 2008
She is declared legally dead.
Key people
The people in the file.
29, nine months pregnant. Last confirmed sighting at a roadblock stop in Pickensville in the early hours of September 2, 2000.
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Investigating agency
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Coverage
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