Cassie Compton

Fifteen-year-old Cassie Compton was last seen on September 14, 2014 in Stuttgart, Arkansas.

Background
Cassie lived with her mother, Judy Compton Kimsey and Judy's then-fiance, Brandon Lee Rhodes. She was home-schooled and was working on getting her G.E.D. certificate. She was taking medicine for a severe cold at the time she went missing. Judy suspected that Cassie may have bipolar disorder after she began having mood swings when she was 13 years old. Cassie was prescribed antidepressents, but she didn't like taking them.

Disappearance
Cassie was last seen sometime after 6:00 p.m. coming home after spending the day at a demolition derby with her friends. Judy (who was sick in bed) and Brandon were at home at the time. After she came home, Cassie left again, but never returned.

There are differing accounts as to what happened that evening after Cassie came home that evening:

One account is that Judy was sick in bed and Brandon was cooking dinner when Cassie left. Cassie told Judy she was going to the store to get some things. Brandon fed Judy dinner in bed because she was too sick to get up.

Another account is that Brandon told Judy he was going out to get cigarettes; at the same time, Cassie texted her mother to say she was going out "to get a smoke."

Brandon reportedly took Judy's car when he left, even though he didn't have a driver's license. He was gone for several hours. When Brandon came home, he went into the bathroom and vomited, remaining in there for over an hour. Cassie and Brandon didn't get along with each other. In the weeks after Cassie disappeared, Judy and Brandon's relationship ended; since then, Judy has married another man.

Brandon is considered a person of interest in Cassie's disappearance, although in 2019, he stated that he never saw Cassie when she came home from the demolition derby on the day she went missing.

Cassie remains a missing person as of 2024.