Still Missing: Laverda Sorrell

Vanished Voices, The Overlooked · Oct 16, 2025 · 50m

On the night of July 4, 2002, 44-year-old Laverda Sorrell, a Diné mother of three, celebrated her 15th wedding anniversary with dinner in Gallup, New Mexico. Later that night, her husband said he dropped her off at her workplace in Fort Defiance, Arizona. She was never seen again.

For more than two decades, her family has lived in the shadow of unanswered questions. Why would Laverda go to her office at 11:30 p.m. on a holiday? Who was the last person to truly see her? And how did a case with so many red flags fade into silence for over twenty years?

For years, the case sat stagnant. The…