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Barnhill,Donna M missing March 18,1981; North Carolina
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Donna Michele Barnhill

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Left: Barnhill, circa 1981;
Right: Age-progression at age 37 (circa 2004)


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: March 18, 1981 from Lexington, North Carolina
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: April 19, 1967
Age: 13 years old
Height and Weight: 5'7, 125 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, brown eyes. Barnhill has a mole or a birthmark on her right arm. She is of Native American descent.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A dark blue jacket, an orange sweatshirt and jeans.


Details of Disappearance

Barnhill left her family's residence in Lexington, North Carolina on March 18, 1981 at approximately 8:30 p.m. She was planning to walk to a friend's home nearby. Barnhill contacted her friend shortly thereafter, but she never arrived at the house and has not been heard from again. Foul play is possible in Barnhill's case. Decades after her disappearance, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children changed the classification of her case from a non-family abduction to lost/injured missing.


Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Lexington Police Department
336-249-8947



Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education Of America
North Carolina Missing Persons



Updated 2 times since October 12, 2004.

Last updated September 1, 2005; details of disappearance updated.
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Rally Remembers 1981 Disappearance of Lexington Teen
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LEXINGTON, N.C. (WGHP) - People gathered at a rally Thursday in Lexington to remember the 1981 disappearance of Donna Michele Barnhil.

Barnhil, who was 13 at the time of her disappearance, went to visit a friend's home on March 18, 1981 in Lexington and was never seen again.

Nona Best of the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons is making sure that cases like Barnhil's and others aren't forgotten.

"She was in a place she trusted, somewhere familiar-- her own neighborhood. and unfortunately, things like that happen close to home," Best said.

Monica Caison is a member of Community United Effort For Missing Persons - a group that travels to different states attempting to increase awareness about missing persons.

"We've got to bring new light to these cases and let them know that people still care and that people are still looking for them, no matter how long they've been missing," Caison said.

Sheila Bradley-Smith, whose twin nieces disappeared from their home in Chicago, knows all-too-well what families like the Barnhil's are going through.

"It hurts the most not knowing," she said.
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Tour encourages communities not to forget missing persons
Donna Barnhill, who disappeared in 1981 from Lexington, is included
Steve Huffman/The Dispatch

Published: Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 5:40 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 5:40 p.m.

Sheliah Smith moved from Chicago to Lexington a little more than a year ago and immediately began wondering what became of Donna Barnhill, a Davidson County girl who disappeared in 1981 when she was just 13.

Barnhill was never found.

“I wondered why no one was looking for her,” Smith said.

On Thursday, Smith helped get the word out about Barnhill as well as numerous other missing persons from across the state and nation. The Missing Persons Tour 2010 made a stop at Smith's house on East Ninth Street.

The tour is sponsored by representatives of the Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons, the brainchild of Monica Caison, a Wilmington resident. The nonprofit organization was founded in 1994.

Every year, Caison tours much of the nation, making stops in cities to try and generate new interest in cases of missing persons, the trails for whom have often grown long cold.

There was a reason that Caison made Thursday's stop at Smith's house. Nine years ago, two of Smith's nieces, Tionda and Diamond Bradley, disappeared from a park in Chicago. Tionda was 10 and Diamond was 3.

Smith said Caison made a stop at her home in Chicago on one of her previous tours. The two women hugged and greeted one another like old friends Thursday.

Pastor Danny Pope of Lexington's Seventh Day Adventist Church led a prayer that was followed by the release of helium balloons in honor of the missing. Before the balloons set sail, Smith reminded those who gathered in her yard that Barnhill's disappearance was never solved.

“There's a kidnapper among us,” Smith said.

Caison said the tour that brought her to Lexington kicked off earlier in the day with a stop in Carrboro. On Friday, they'll hold a rally in Charlottesville, Va.

Over the next 10 days, Caison will visit 11 states to put the word out about missing individuals.

She said the tour features 109 individuals whose photographs are mounted on a map of the United States, then the map turned into a huge poster. One hung Thursday in front of Smith's house.

Caison said she features 109 missing individuals each year because that's the number that will fit on the map with the pictures still able to be easily seen.

“We bring them national awareness,” Caison said of those individuals who have long been missing.

She said that thus far, every year of the tour's existence has resulted in at least one solved case. Caison said that a year ago, the case solved was of an individual who had been missing for 28 years.

Smith said the idea behind the tour is to get individual cases back before the media, to get the word out that these individuals are still missing and loved.

“The whole concept is media awareness,” she said. “We want to remind people that someone cares about these people and they need our help.”

At Thursday's rally, Smith displayed bowls of M&Ms candies that bore likenesses of the faces of her nieces, Barnhill and Asha Degree, a girl who is missing from Shelby. Earlier this year, Mars Inc. etched the girls' faces and the date of their disappearances on M&Ms used in a missing children's awareness program in North Carolina. The company made the move, Smith said, at her request.

“It's like I'm holding them in my hands,” Smith said as she held bowls containing candy that bore the likenesses of the girls.
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COLD CASE SPOTLIGHT: Donna Michele Barnhill






Donna Michele Barnhill was just 13 years old when she disappeared. No one has seen her in nearly 35 years.

On the evening of March 18th, 1981, Barnhill left her home in Lexington, North Carolina to walk to a friend's home nearby. Since then, no answers as to what could have happened to the young teen have been uncovered.

North Carolina-based Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons released a new sketch in October 2014 of what Barnhill might look like today, hoping that she might be alive somewhere. A CUE news release about the new sketch stated the organization wanted to leave no stone un-turned.

"After so many years, these cases fade from the public's radar, but for the families and friends of a missing person, the nightmare continues — every minute of every day their loved one is absent," CUE founder Monica Caison told The Dispatch at a vigil event geared towards Barnhill in November 2014.

Captain Billy Scarboro of the Lexington Police Department told The Dispatch Barnhill's case remains over, but that all leads have been followed. "All the leads we have had before have been dead ends. We would love to take the case that is this old and bring closure to it."

If you have any information that can help crack this cold case, please contact the Lexington Police Department at (336) 243-3302 or the CUE Center for Missing Persons at (910) 343-1131.
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