Key facts
- Name: Cleashindra Denise Hall (known as “Clea”)
- Born: March 30, 1976
- Age at disappearance: 18
- Last seen: May 9, 1994, after 8:30 p.m.
- Location: Walking into her after-school job at the home office of Larry Amos, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
- Height / build: 5’8″–5’9″, 120 lbs; Black; dark eyes and hair worn in a ponytail; surgical scar on her left knee; last seen wearing a white shirt and short set (navy polka dots on the shorts, blue stripes on the shirt), white socks, white athletic shoes
- Status: Still missing — 32 years; Pine Bluff Police consider the case likely a kidnapping; person of interest named, no charges
- Case numbers: Not publicly confirmed
- Investigating agency: Pine Bluff Police Department, Arkansas
The second phone call
Cleashindra Hall called her mother just after 8 p.m. on Monday, May 9, 1994.
She was at her after-school job — she worked in the home office of 43-year-old Larry Amos in Pine Bluff — and she wasn’t ready to leave yet. She told her mother, Laurell, to expect a second phone call when it was time for her ride home.
The second call never came.
Sometime after 8:30 p.m., Clea was last seen walking into Amos’s office. Laurell Hall fell asleep waiting for the phone to ring. She woke around 1 a.m. on May 10 and realized: Clea had never called. She hadn’t come home.
Her parents reported her missing on May 10. They were told that since Clea was legally an adult — 18 — they’d have to wait 24 hours before they could file a missing-persons report.
She was two weeks from graduating high school.
Who Clea was
Cleashindra Hall was the kind of teenager adults point to. An honor student at her high school. She’d attended her senior prom that May. She had landed a summer internship at a pediatrician’s office in Boston. She’d been accepted into the pre-med program at Tennessee State University. She wanted to be a pediatrician.
She had no history of leaving without telling anyone. She was not, by every account, a troubled teen. She had no boyfriend. She had no reason to run — and every reason to come home.
Her mother, Laurell Williams Hall, and father, Willie Hall, never stopped. In 2015, the family started a scholarship program in Clea’s name. In 2017, NBC News profiled Laurell’s hope that Mother’s Day would finally bring answers.
The man in the home office
Larry Amos told police that after Clea finished work at his office, she got into a car with an unknown individual. He said he didn’t see who was driving and couldn’t describe the vehicle.
Two weeks after Clea disappeared, police searched Amos’s home — which doubled as his office, the last place she was seen. Laurell Hall believed Amos had been given enough time to discard any evidence of a struggle. Lieutenant Terry Hopson of the Pine Bluff Police Department said the search turned up no evidence that Clea had been injured or attacked there. Amos’s property was later searched pursuant to a warrant. He is considered a person of interest. He has never been charged.
There was one other early suspect: a local boy Clea reportedly liked. Police interrogated him, searched his vehicle, gave him a polygraph. The results were inconclusive. They couldn’t connect him to the disappearance.
Police believe Clea left with someone she knew. The local police consider the case likely a kidnapping but have said they have no clues to the identity of any potential kidnapper. And here is the detail that still angers her family: the case predates mobile phones. There were no tower pings to pull, no GPS, no digital trail. In 1994, a girl could walk into a home office after 8:30 p.m. and leave no traceable trace at all.
The case drew national attention in its time — CNN, America’s Most Wanted, Find Our Missing — and local investigators have said they’ve spent many hours and manpower on it over the years. In 2012, Arkansas Online reported police were again searching a doctor’s property in the cold case. In 2018, KATV reported no blood evidence on new items tested. The investigation, police said in 2009, was still ongoing.
Theories: what might have happened
Abduction by someone she knew — possibly from the office. This is the theory the police themselves hold: likely kidnapping, left with someone she knew. What supports it: the last confirmed location was a private home office at night; the only witness account (Amos’s) describes her getting into a car with someone unidentified; nothing of hers was ever found. What is unproven: who was driving, and whether Amos’s account is accurate. Amos is a person of interest, not a suspect charged with anything — presumption of innocence applies.
She was walking home and was taken. If Amos’s account is wrong and Clea left on foot, the walk home becomes the window. What supports it: nothing confirms she got into any car. What undercuts it: no witnesses, no screams reported, no trace along any route.
Voluntary departure. The theory her family has always rejected. What undercuts it: everything about Clea — the internship, the college acceptance, the prom two weeks before graduation, the close family, the promised second phone call. Teenagers run from something. Clea, by every account, was running toward something.
Have information?
Contact the Pine Bluff Police Department in Arkansas, or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST). In an emergency, dial 911.
Timeline
- March 30, 1976 — Cleashindra Denise Hall is born.
- May 1994 — Clea attends her senior prom; two weeks from high school graduation; bound for a Boston pediatric internship and Tennessee State pre-med.
- May 9, 1994, just after 8:00 p.m. — Clea calls her mother from her after-school job; promises a second call when she needs a ride.
- May 9, 1994, after 8:30 p.m. — Clea is last seen walking into Larry Amos’s home office in Pine Bluff.
- May 10, 1994, ~1:00 a.m. — Laurell Hall wakes, realizes Clea never called; parents report her missing; told to wait 24 hours because Clea is 18.
- Late May 1994 — Police search Amos’s home/office; no evidence of a struggle found. A local boy is interrogated and polygraphed; cleared.
- 2001 — America’s Most Wanted profiles the case (one source, AMWFans, dates the AMW airing to 1999; both dates are carried here as reported). CNN covers it.
- 2009 — Police say the investigation is still ongoing.
- 2012 — Police search a doctor’s property pursuant to a warrant (Arkansas Online).
- 2015 — Family starts a scholarship program in Clea’s name.
- 2017 — NBC News: “Arkansas mother hopes this will be the last Mother’s Day without answers.”
- 2018 — KATV: no blood evidence on newly tested items.
- Today — Still missing, 32 years on. Find Our Missing featured her case.
FAQ
Is Cleashindra Hall still missing?
Yes. As of October 2026, Cleashindra Hall has been missing for 32 years. She disappeared on May 9, 1994, two weeks before her high school graduation.
Was Cleashindra Hall ever found?
No. No trace of Clea has ever been found, and no one has been charged in her disappearance.
Who is Larry Amos?
Larry Amos, 43 at the time, was Clea’s after-school employer; she worked in the home office at his Pine Bluff residence. He told police she got into an unknown person’s car after work. His property was searched under warrant and he is considered a person of interest. He has never been charged.
How old would Cleashindra Hall be today?
Clea was born March 30, 1976 — she turned 50 in March 2026.
How can I help?
Share this case file. Anyone with information can contact the Pine Bluff Police Department or NCMEC at 1-800-843-5678.
Sources
- Official / law enforcement: Pine Bluff Police Department (statements via Lt. Terry Hopson); NamUs; The Doe Network; National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
- News: CNN (“Honors student leaves doctor’s office, disappears,” Nancy Grace producer Rupa Mikkilineni); NBC News (“Arkansas mother hopes this will be the last Mother’s Day without answers,” 2017); KATV (“No blood evidence on new items in Cleashindra Hall case”); Arkansas Online (“Police investigating 1994 cold case search doctor’s property,” Mar 2012); ArkansasMatters (“Missing 21 Years,” May 2015).
- Reference: Wikipedia, “Disappearance of Cleashindra Hall” (retrieved Oct 2026); The Charley Project, “Cleashindra Denise Hall.”
- Media: America’s Most Wanted (2001; AMWFans reports 1999 — conflict noted in timeline); Find Our Missing.
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