Red Deer RCMP are asking for the public's help finding a missing 16-year-old girl.
Jayden Crier was last seen in Red Deer on July 15, according to the RCMP's missing person bulletin, and a week has now passed without word. Police say they are concerned for her well-being and want to speak with her.
Jayden is described as 5'6" tall, about 220 pounds, with brown hair. She wears glasses. The RCMP bulletin includes a recent photo, and it's worth a careful look even for people outside Red Deer, missing teens are found in other cities more often than in their own.
This is the second appeal for Jayden this summer
Red Deer RCMP also asked for the public's help finding Jayden in late June, after she was last seen June 24. That appeal ended with her evidently located, and the new bulletin, with its July 15 date, means she has gone missing again.
Police haven't shared the circumstances of either disappearance, and this article won't guess at them. What the repeat does mean, practically, is that every appeal counts the same. Police treat each missing person report on its own terms, the concern for well-being in this bulletin is current, and a sighting today matters exactly as much as it would for a first report. The worst outcome of a second appeal would be people who saw the first one paying less attention to this one.
A week is a long time
Jayden has now been unaccounted for longer than most missing-youth files stay open. The majority resolve within days. When one stretches past a week, police widen the net, and the public becomes more of the search, not less: a teen away from home that long is moving through public places, transit, stores, other people's homes, which means someone has seen her, likely without knowing it.
That's the reason to look at the photo rather than skim past the headline. Recognition from a stranger is how these appeals actually work.
If you think you see her
A possible sighting of a missing teen goes wrong in two predictable ways: people do too much, or nothing at all.
Too much looks like approaching, questioning, or announcing that you recognize someone from a missing poster. A 16-year-old who has left home once already may simply leave again, faster, and the sighting evaporates before police can act on it. Nothing at all looks like second-guessing yourself out of calling, deciding it probably wasn't her, and mentioning it to someone days later when the time and place would have mattered.
The middle path is the useful one. Note where you are, the time, what she's wearing, which direction she's headed and who she's with, then call it in and let her be. If she's working a till or sitting in a food court, you don't need to keep her in sight for an hour, a solid location fix from ten minutes ago is a strong lead. And if it turns out not to be her, nothing is lost. Police would rather clear ten mistaken sightings than miss one real one, and nobody gets in trouble for a wrong guess made in good faith.
How to report a sighting
Anyone with information about where Jayden is can call the Red Deer RCMP detachment at 403-406-2200. Anonymous tips go to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, online at p3tips.com, or through the P3 Tips app.
If you see her, you don't need certainty to call. A possible sighting with a time and place is valuable, and police sort out the rest.
Sources:
RCMP missing person bulletin, Jayden Crier, July 2026
Red Deer RCMP missing person release, June 29, 2026
