Myra Lewis

Case background and investigation

Myra Rena Lewis was a two-year-old girl who vanished from the front yard of her family's rural home on Mount Pilgrim Road near Camden, in Madison County, Mississippi, on the morning of March 1, 2014. Myra was playing outside with her older sister when her mother, Ericka Lewis, left the house between roughly 10:30 and 11:00 a.m. to run errands. Ericka later said she had told both girls to go back inside. Myra's father, Gregory Lewis, was at home caring for the couple's one-month-old baby. When Ericka returned around 3:00 p.m. and asked where Myra was, Gregory reportedly said he believed the child was with her mother. Each parent had assumed the other was watching the toddler, and by the time the family realized Myra was gone, several hours had passed.

A frantic search followed. Deputies, K-9 units, helicopters and dive teams combed a four-mile radius around the isolated home and searched nearby ponds, but found no trace of the little girl. The Madison County Sheriff's Office issued an Amber Alert on March 2, 2014, and formally classified the case as a child abduction. The FBI joined the investigation within days and eventually posted a $20,000 reward for information leading to Myra's recovery. Ericka Lewis was briefly jailed in March 2014 on an unrelated probation violation and released that May; investigators have never publicly named a suspect in the disappearance itself.

Because Myra disappeared from a remote yard with no witnesses and no physical evidence, investigators have struggled to determine whether she wandered off, drowned, or was taken by someone. Extensive ground and water searches turned up nothing, leading many to suspect she was abducted. In a 2026 interview marking twelve years since the disappearance, Myra's grandmother, Martha Sanders, publicly voiced suspicion that a family member was involved, saying she had 'no doubt' about it, though no charges have ever resulted. The Madison County Sheriff's Office has said 'everything is still on the table' as the investigation continues.

Myra Lewis holds the grim distinction of being the longest unsolved missing-child case in Mississippi history to have prompted an Amber Alert. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has released age-progressed images showing how she might look as she grows, and the FBI's reward remains active. More than a decade after she vanished, no arrest has been made and Myra has never been found; she would be a teenager today. Investigators continue to ask anyone with information to contact the Madison County Sheriff's Office, the FBI, or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, hoping that a single tip may finally reveal what happened to the toddler who disappeared from her own front yard on an ordinary Saturday morning.