Police have been searching for the remains of the Birmingham mother missing since 2014

On January 18, 2025By Littum

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – Birmingham police have confirmed they are searching an area in Ensley for the remains of a Birmingham mother who has been missing since April 2014.

Kierra Stubbs23, mother of two children, var last seen on the morning of Thursday, April 24, 2014, in the 700 block of 3rd Avenue West.

Stubbs’ family said she met a man she knew from a gas station about a month before. According to Stubbs’ aunt, she told her family that she wanted money from the man to get her brakes fixed.

Family members say Stubbs’ brother drove her to a Boost Mobile store in 5 Points West to meet the man and parked across the street to watch her. When the man stopped, Stubbs got into the car and drove off, according to her family. There has been no sign of her since.

Stubbs family members huddled in the cold Thursday, hoping for answers from police they’ve been waiting for for more than a decade.

Stubbs’ close family say the last 10 years without her have been tough. On Thursday, they expressed frustration with the police for not giving the house a more thorough search until now.

“This is one of the houses when she first disappeared … this is one of the houses that we searched when she first disappeared and it was nothing,” said Shonta Smith, Stubbs’ aunt. “It was not something they wanted to do and the things they are doing now, they could have done 10 years ago and we would have had answers and closure.”

Birmingham Police say no remains were found during Thursday’s search. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office also says no human remains were found at the site they searched.

This article will be updated with new information as it becomes available.

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