Missing Woman Who Vanished A Month Ago In IE Found Safe

UPDATE Feb. 4, 2025: Elle Shay Francis has been found.

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CA — Sheriff's investigators are hoping the public can help bring about the safe recovery of a 27-year-old woman who disappeared a month ago in the Inland Empire.

Elle Shay Francis was last seen on Dec. 28 in the area of Duffy Street and 3rd Avenue in Muscoy, an unincorporated community of San Bernardino County. She was spotted getting into a late 1990s or early 2000s white Chevy two-door work truck with an unknown male before vanishing, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

It's still "an active missing person case," a sheriff's spokesperson said Monday.

Francis is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 145 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black shirt, black leggings, black sandals and white socks, the sheriff's department reported.

According to a Facebook page launched to help find Francis, the young woman was on "an involuntary hold" at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach when she was transferred out of Orange County to Canyon Ridge Behavioral Health in Chino.

Francis was then "dumped" by authorities into Muscoy with no money, no identification, no phone and no medications, according to the page.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, Central Station, at 909-387-3545. Reference deputy report #012402851.