Missing Woman Last Seen With Lyft Driver Found Dead: Police

A missing woman last seen with a Lyft driver has been found dead, according to Tennessee police.

Memphis police first reported Shatiqua Palmer, 32, as missing last week, and on Monday, November 14, stated she had been found.

According to CBS affiliate WREG, police had offered no update until they later confirmed that officers were investigating her death. Police didn't give any details about how Palmer died or where her body was eventually located.

In 2021, there were a record 342 homicides in Memphis - according to NBC affiliate WMC.

According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, some 600,000 people go missing every year.

On Friday morning, a Memphis Police Department (MPD) officer arrived at a Whitehaven home where Palmer's roommate and her mother said she hadn't been heard from since the day before.

An MPD missing person's alert read: "The victim (Palmer) advised she was going to meet a friend and has not returned home. Ms. Palmer does not suffer from any known mental disorders. The victim will have a large tattoo on her neck."

Palmer's roommate said she left with a Lyft driver in an unknown vehicle and that she called her phone several times, but that it went to voicemail.

According to WREG, the roommate and Palmer's mother were able to track her last location using her iPad.

Palmer's boyfriend told police he went to the location shown on the iPad and spoke with a man who was there who claimed she had left, but was not sure when.

Newsweek has contacted the MPD for comment.

Similar Cases

There have been numerous cases across the U.S. where women have been found dead after being reported missing.

In October, a man was charged with abusing a corpse after the remains of a missing woman were found in a Tennessee garden.

Rebecca Seay, 83, was first reported as missing in mid-February and was found dead on March 3, although Memphis police didn't share further information about her death at the time.

Gregory Tanner, 59, the partner of Seay's late child was charged on suspicion of stealing money from Seay, abusing her corpse, property theft, identity theft, and forgery, according to The Commercial Appeal.

Tanner had been Seay's caregiver and while her cause of death is unclear, he hasn't been charged in connection with the death itself.

Seay was found next to the ashes of her child that Tanner had collected in the fall of 2020, according to documents.