She Failed To Show Up For Her Son’s Birthday Party In 2021 And Has Been Missing Ever Since

Dava Charlene Leonard is the mother of six children, and by 2021, the 39-year-old had been living with her boyfriend in Divide, Colorado, for three years.
According to her sister, Miccah Leonard, she was also a real jokester.
“She’s the one person always laughing, making jokes… she really was the comedian of the family,” Miccah said.
But, after Dava was last seen at her boyfriend’s home – which is located in the Rainbow Valley Subdivision – on March 3, 2021, she never showed up for her son’s twelfth birthday party just two days later on March 5.
This immediately concerned her loved ones, who knew Dava would never intentionally miss the celebration.
“She was supposed to come back for his birthday on March 5 or call or something. And she never called, never came back. I got a bad feeling on March 3. I just, in my heart, I knew something was wrong,” Miccah recalled.
So, on March 6, 2021, Miccah contacted the Teller County Sheriff’s Office and asked for a welfare check to be conducted on Dava. Then, on March 11, 2021, an official missing person report and investigation was launched.
Dava reportedly does not have a car or cell phone, and her bank account has shown no activity since her disappearance.
According to authorities, Dava also left all of her personal belongings – including her dog named Ello – behind. Her family, on the other hand, believes she never would have just walked away.

Teller County Sheriff’s Office – pictured above is Dava
“For [the sheriff’s office] to say she didn’t have nothing there, and then she walked away with nothing and she left her dog, Ello… she didn’t. She didn’t walk away from her stuff,” Miccah stated.
Additionally, Miccah admitted to being suspicious of Dava’s boyfriend and claimed to have had concerns regarding domestic violence.
Dava and her boyfriend reportedly met while online dating, and from the first time he traveled to Pueblo to pick up Dava, her family felt uneasy.
“My other sister says the first time he came and picked her up he was just like possessive and, ‘Come on, we got to go. Get your stuff. Let’s go.’ And everybody in the house was like, ‘Who is this guy? Was he acting like this?'” Miccah explained.
Nonetheless, while both the Teller County Sheriff’s Office and Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) work together on Dava’s case, little information has been released to the public – with authorities stating it is still an ongoing investigation.
So, the exact circumstances surrounding Dava’s disappearance, as well as her whereabouts, remain a mystery. Her sister, Miccah, has also continued praying for her sister to return home and hoping that her worst fear – that Dava isn’t alive – is not true.
“We literally pray that I am wrong. But I am not,” Miccah said.
Dava is five foot four, weighs between 120 and 130 pounds, and has brown/auburn hair and green eyes. Dava also wears black cat-eye glasses, has a piercing below her left eye, and a dragon tattoo on her back.
She was last seen wearing jeans and a gray Columbia jacket with front and side pockets.
If you have any information regarding Dava’s case, you are urged to contact the Teller County Sheriff’s Office at (719) 687-9652.
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