Key facts
- Name: LaMoine Jordan Allen (also spelled Lemoine or Lamoine)
- Born: July 23, 1989
- Age at disappearance: 2
- 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”, 35 lbs, black hair, brown eyes; small scar on his left knee; last seen wearing a blue/black Hawaiian-style shirt or tank top, light blue shorts, and black/blue/white sandals
- Status: Still missing — disappeared together with 3-year-old Kreneice Jones (Mississippi Repository status: Open; Wilkinson County Sheriff case #92-0512-2; NCMEC listing active)
- Investigating agency: FBI (Louisiana) — (504) 522-4671; NCMEC — 1-800-843-5678
The boy in the Hawaiian shirt
LaMoine Allen was two years old on May 10, 1992 — Mother’s Day — when he went with family to Wilkinson County, Mississippi. He didn’t live with his parents: his father was in the military, his mother was away at school, and LaMoine was being raised by his aunt and uncle as unofficial guardians. They’d come up from Edgard, Louisiana, for the holiday, same as the Jones family.
Around 4:00 p.m., LaMoine was playing in front of the Jimmy Jackson Grocery Store on Highway 24 with three-year-old Kreneice Jones. He was wearing a blue-and-black Hawaiian-style shirt or tank top, light blue shorts, and black, blue, and white sandals. He had a small scar on his left knee. He was 2’11” and 35 pounds — barely more than a baby.
Then he and Kreneice were gone.
Thirty-four years of the same question
LaMoine’s name is spelled three ways in the record — LaMoine, Lemoine, Lamoine — which tells you something about how the system held him: loosely. A two-year-old in unofficial guardianship, a father in the military, a mother at school out of town. When he vanished, the paperwork of his life was as fragile as he was.
The known facts mirror Kreneice’s case exactly, because they are the same event: the crowded store lot, the twenty-plus people, the unidentified blue compact car with the false convertible top, chrome hubcaps, and tinted windows seen nearby. The Buffalo “Ms. Cook” lead that went nowhere. The America’s Most Wanted segment. The father of the other child, suspected and cleared.
What belongs to LaMoine alone is the arithmetic of loss. He was two. He would be 37 now. If he was taken and raised by someone else, he may be a man in his thirties who doesn’t know his name is LaMoine Allen, doesn’t know he had an aunt and uncle waiting, doesn’t know about the Hawaiian shirt. Every year that passes makes that possibility — and its opposite — harder to resolve.
The Mississippi Repository still lists the case as Open. The Charley Project carries his file (charleyproject.org/case/lamoine-jordan-allen). Thirty-four years, and the file is still open.
The guardianship and the gaps
LaMoine Allen’s living situation was fragile in the way the system barely tracks: unofficial guardianship with his aunt and uncle, father in the military, mother away at school. No court order, no caseworker — just family stepping in, the way families do. When he vanished, there wasn’t even a clean legal framework for who spoke for him. His name is spelled three different ways in the record. A two-year-old with three spellings of his name and no legal guardianship is a child the system was already failing before May 10, 1992.
The families’ trip from Edgard, Louisiana, to Wilkinson County was a homecoming of sorts — Mother’s Day, church, dinner, the country store as gathering place. Twenty-plus people in the lot. And still, two toddlers vanished. That fact has never been explained to anyone’s satisfaction: how do you take two small children from a crowded lot in daylight without a single witness seeing it happen? The answer, if the abduction theory holds, is speed and planning — someone who knew the lot, the crowd, the moment.
The Charley Project file (charleyproject.org/case/lamoine-jordan-allen) keeps the details public: the Hawaiian shirt, the scar on the left knee, the sandals. The Mississippi Repository keeps the status Open. Thirty-four years, and the entry is still maintained — updated November 2022 — by people keeping faith with a two-year-old’s file.
If LaMoine was taken and raised by someone else, he’s 37 now — possibly with no idea that his first name was ever spelled three ways in a missing-child file, no idea about the aunt and uncle, the Hawaiian shirt, the Mother’s Day trip. Every missing toddler who isn’t found becomes two mysteries: what happened that day, and who they became after.
The blue car that was never found
The unidentified blue compact car — false convertible top, chrome hubcaps, dark-tinted windows — is the kind of detail that should have broken this case. It’s specific. A false convertible top is not a common feature; chrome hubcaps and dark tint narrow it further. In 1992, in rural Wilkinson County, Mississippi, a car like that would have been noticed. Someone owned it. Someone drove it to the Jimmy Jackson Grocery Store that Mother’s Day afternoon, or past it, slowly enough to be remembered.
But remembered by whom? The detail exists in the file, which means someone reported it — and then the thread went nowhere. No plate number. No driver description. No confirmed connection to the children. It’s possible the car had nothing to do with anything: a stranger’s vehicle, noticed because everything gets noticed in a case like this, elevated by desperation into a lead. It’s also possible it was the vehicle that took two toddlers away from twenty people in daylight, and that the driver has been free for thirty-four years.
This is the cruelty of the pre-digital era: no traffic cameras on Highway 24, no cell-tower pings, no license-plate readers. A blue car with a fake convertible top drove through a Mother’s Day afternoon in 1992 and dissolved into the past. If LaMoine Allen is alive — 37 years old, somewhere, possibly unaware — the car is the only mechanical fact standing between him and his name.
Theories
Abduction — likely by someone who could handle two toddlers
Two children vanishing simultaneously from a crowded store lot points to a planned taking. The blue compact car with tinted windows remains the case’s great unanswered detail. Evidence level: The car was never identified or conclusively linked. No suspects publicly named; no one charged. Any living person connected to this case is presumed innocent.
Custody or family taking
LaMoine’s unofficial guardianship arrangement — father in the military, mother at school — raises the question of whether someone with a claim to him took him. Evidence level: No evidence of a family taking has ever surfaced; no relative has ever been charged.
Wandered off
Evidence level: Two toddlers, one just two years old, do not wander away from a crowded lot on a highway and leave no trace. 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
- July 23, 1989 — LaMoine Jordan Allen is born.
- May 10, 1992, ~4:00 p.m. — LaMoine, 2, and Kreneice Jones, 3, vanish while playing in front of the Jimmy Jackson Grocery Store on Hwy 24, four miles east of Woodville, MS. 20+ people are present; an unidentified blue compact car is seen nearby.
- 1992 — The Buffalo “Ms. Cook” lead 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 LaMoine Allen still missing?
Yes. As of October 2026, LaMoine Allen remains missing. He vanished in May 1992 and has never been found.
Was LaMoine Allen ever found?
No. No trace of LaMoine — or of Kreneice Jones, who vanished with him — has ever been found.
What happened to LaMoine Allen?
He disappeared with 3-year-old Kreneice Jones from in front of the Jimmy Jackson Grocery Store on Highway 24 near Woodville, Mississippi, around 4:00 p.m. on May 10, 1992. The case remains open.
How old would LaMoine Allen be today?
He was born July 23, 1989, so he would be 37 years old in 2026.
Why is his name spelled different ways?
Records spell it LaMoine, Lemoine, and Lamoine. The Charley Project file uses “LaMoine Jordan Allen.”
What did LaMoine Allen look like?
He was 2’11”, 35 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes and a small scar on his left knee. He wore a blue/black Hawaiian-style shirt or tank top, light blue shorts, and black/blue/white sandals.
Sources
Official / law enforcement:
– FBI (Louisiana) — (504) 522-4671
– National Center for Missing & Exploited Children — 1-800-843-5678
– Wilkinson County Sheriff’s Office — Case #92-0512-2; Mississippi Repository status: Open
Reference:
– Charley Project — case file: LaMoine Jordan Allen (charleyproject.org/case/lamoine-jordan-allen)
– 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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