07/17/2026
Stefanie Damron, who was 13 when she disappeared in September 2024, is still missing.
Stefanie Damron was a 13 year old girl living in rural New Sweden, Maine, when she went missing from her family’s backwoods compound. Since then there have been no credible sightings or clues to her whereabouts, despite the involvement of local and state law enforcement, and the FBI.
On the day of September 23, 2024, Stefanie reportedly had an argument with her sister while her parents were away from the homestead, and walked off into the woods never to be seen again. This argument was reported by the 80 year old non relative male that the two girls shared a yurt with on the family property, and referred to as “grandfather”.
According to her parents, Lisa and Christopher (Dale) Damron, who lived in another area on the property in a trailer, they were away that day looking for jobs. They were not unduly worried as, according to them, she had taken off into the woods “to cool off” twice before, and “knew the woods like the back of her hand”. They reported her missing the next day when she did not return.
Stefanie did not have a cellphone and had limited access to the internet. The family live an off the grid lifestyle that included the home schooling of Stefanie and her five siblings. They have no running water and a generator for electricity.
The parents had a previous run in with CPS in Texas when they were arrested for ma*****na possession and leaving the kids in the car while they were visibly intoxicated in McDonald’s. At that time they lost custody of their children for 6 months.
The FBI has posted a reward of $15,000 for information leading to Stefanie’s safe return or the arrest and prosecution of anyone involved in her disappearance. Damron is described as a white female with green eyes and shoulder-length brown hair. She is about 5 feet tall and weighs 130 pounds. She was wearing blue jeans, a long-sleeved blue shirt and black Harley Davidson hiking boots at the time she went missing
What happened to Stefanie Damron?
