Key facts
- Name: Kreneice Marie Jones
- Age at disappearance: 3
- Last seen: May 10, 1992, around 4:00 p.m., playing in front of the Jimmy Jackson Grocery Store on Highway 24, about four miles east of Woodville, Mississippi
- Location: Wilkinson County, Mississippi
- Description: 2’11”, 33 lbs, black hair in braided ponytails, brown eyes; scar in front of her right ear
- Status: Still missing — disappeared together with 2-year-old LaMoine Allen (Mississippi Repository status: Open; Wilkinson County Sheriff case #92-0512-2; NamUs MP6240; NCMEC 769141)
- Investigating agency: FBI (Louisiana) — (504) 522-4671; NCMEC — 1-800-843-5678
Mother’s Day, 1992
On May 10, 1992 — Mother’s Day — the Jones family drove in from Edgard, Louisiana, to Wilkinson County, Mississippi, for a church service and dinner. Late that afternoon, around 4:00 p.m., three-year-old Kreneice was playing in front of the Jimmy Jackson Grocery Store on Highway 24, about four miles east of Woodville, with a little boy named LaMoine Allen, who was two.
There were more than twenty people at the store. It was a gathering — families, a holiday, a country store parking lot full of life.
Then Kreneice and LaMoine were gone. Both of them. Two toddlers, vanished from in front of a store with twenty people around.
The blue car
An unidentified blue compact car was seen near the store that afternoon — described as having a false convertible top, chrome hubcaps, and dark-tinted windows. Whether it had anything to do with the children’s disappearance was never established. It’s the kind of detail that lodges in a case file for decades: specific enough to chase, vague enough to never resolve.
The families knew each other. Kreneice’s mother was dating the uncle of LaMoine’s uncle — a tangled small-town connection. Kreneice’s father, Gregory, was initially suspected and then ruled out. LaMoine lived with his aunt and uncle as unofficial guardians; his father was in the military, his mother away at school.
A lead took investigators to Buffalo, New York — a woman called “Ms. Cook” who was thought to know something. It fizzled. The case aired on America’s Most Wanted. And then, like so many cases from the early nineties, it went quiet — but never closed. The Mississippi Repository still lists it as Open (entry updated November 2022). The Charley Project still carries it. NCMEC poster 769141 is still up.
Kreneice would be about 37 now.
Two children, one mystery
What happened at the Jimmy Jackson Grocery Store on May 10, 1992, is a locked-room mystery without the locked room. Twenty-plus people. Two toddlers. A country store on a highway in rural Mississippi. For both children to vanish — not one, both — suggests coordination: someone who could take two small children at once, quickly, without raising an alarm in a crowded lot.
The children’s youth is what makes the case both urgent and cold. Kreneice was three; LaMoine was two. They couldn’t tell anyone their names, or they’d say them to the wrong person. If they were taken by someone who raised them, they may not know they’re missing children. If they weren’t, they died children, and someone knows where.
The families, then and now
The Jones and Allen families were connected before that day — Kreneice’s mother dating the uncle of LaMoine’s uncle, the kind of intertwined relationship small towns produce. They came to Wilkinson County together for Mother’s Day: church service, dinner, the country store. It was supposed to be a holiday.
Afterward, the connections strained. Kreneice’s father, Gregory, was suspected early — the standard focus on the father in a missing-child case — and then ruled out. Suspicion, even when cleared, leaves a mark. The Buffalo “Ms. Cook” lead took investigators to New York on a thread that dissolved. America’s Most Wanted put the children’s faces on national television in the early nineties, when that show was the closest thing America had to an Amber Alert.
Then the long quiet. The Mississippi Repository entry — missinginms.msstate.edu/case/134 — was updated in November 2022, status still Open, thirty years on. Wilkinson County Sheriff’s case #92-0512-2. NamUs MP6240. NCMEC 769141. The bureaucratic afterlife of a case: numbers and statuses, maintained by people who weren’t born when Kreneice vanished.
Kreneice would be about 37 now. The braided ponytails are the detail that stays with you — a mother’s handiwork, done that morning or the night before, for a Mother’s Day church service. Someone braided that little girl’s hair, and then the afternoon took her. Thirty-four years later, the braids are still the clearest image in the file: a three-year-old, dressed for church, playing in front of a country store, gone before anyone understood she was gone.
The blue car that was never found
The unidentified blue compact car — false convertible top, chrome hubcaps, dark-tinted windows — should have been findable. In 1992, in rural Mississippi, a car with a fake convertible top stood out. Someone owned it. Someone drove it near the Jimmy Jackson Grocery Store that Mother’s Day afternoon. But no plate was recorded, no driver described, and the car was never conclusively tied to the children — or cleared.
It’s the case’s original sin of evidence: a specific, memorable vehicle, noticed in the right place at the right time, that dissolved into the pre-digital past. No traffic cameras on Highway 24. No plate readers. Just a description in a file, thirty-four years old, of a blue car with chrome hubcaps that someone saw and no one stopped.
If Kreneice Jones is alive — about 37 now, possibly raised by whoever took her — the car is the thread. Someone drove it. Someone knows who.
Theories
Abduction — likely by someone who could handle two toddlers
Two children vanishing simultaneously from a crowded store lot points to a planned taking, not a wandering-off. The blue compact car with tinted windows is the perennial thread. Evidence level: The car was never identified and never conclusively linked. No suspects have been publicly named; no one has been charged. Any living person connected to this case is presumed innocent.
A family or custody dispute
The tangled family connections — unofficial guardians, a mother away at school, a father in the military — have drawn speculation. Evidence level: Kreneice’s father was suspected and ruled out. No evidence of a custody taking has ever surfaced.
They wandered off together
Evidence level: Weak. Two toddlers don’t get far on Highway 24, and twenty people were present. Searches found nothing.
Have information?
Contact the FBI (Louisiana) at (504) 522-4671 or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678.
In an emergency, dial 911.
Timeline
- 1989 — Kreneice Marie Jones is born.
- May 10, 1992, ~4:00 p.m. — Kreneice, 3, and LaMoine Allen, 2, vanish while playing in front of the Jimmy Jackson Grocery Store on Hwy 24, four miles east of Woodville, MS, during a Mother’s Day family gathering. 20+ people are at the store. An unidentified blue compact car (false convertible top, chrome hubcaps, dark-tinted windows) is seen nearby.
- 1992 — Kreneice’s father Gregory is suspected, then ruled out. A “Ms. Cook” lead in Buffalo, NY, fizzles. The case airs on America’s Most Wanted.
- November 2022 — Mississippi Repository entry updated; status: Open (Wilkinson County Sheriff #92-0512-2).
- Today — Still missing.
FAQ
Is Kreneice Jones still missing?
Yes. As of October 2026, Kreneice Jones remains missing. She vanished in May 1992 and has never been found.
Was Kreneice Jones ever found?
No. No trace of Kreneice — or of LaMoine Allen, who vanished with her — has ever been found.
What happened to Kreneice Jones?
She disappeared with 2-year-old LaMoine Allen from in front of the Jimmy Jackson Grocery Store on Highway 24 near Woodville, Mississippi, around 4:00 p.m. on May 10, 1992. An unidentified blue compact car was seen nearby. The case remains open.
How old would Kreneice Jones be today?
She was 3 in 1992, so she would be about 37 years old in 2026.
Who is LaMoine Allen?
The 2-year-old boy who vanished at the same time, from the same place. The two cases are investigated together (see our case file on LaMoine Allen).
What did Kreneice Jones look like?
She was 2’11”, 33 pounds, with black hair in braided ponytails and brown eyes, and a scar in front of her right ear.
Sources
Official / law enforcement:
– FBI (Louisiana) — (504) 522-4671
– National Center for Missing & Exploited Children — 1-800-843-5678 (NCMEC 769141)
– Wilkinson County Sheriff’s Office — Case #92-0512-2; Mississippi Repository status: Open
– NamUs — MP6240
Reference:
– Mississippi State missing-persons repository — missinginms.msstate.edu/case/134 (entry updated November 2022)
Media:
– America’s Most Wanted — segment on the Jones/Allen disappearances
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