Help Police Find Missing Tattooed Accountant Jessica Johnston On St. Croix

FREDERIKSTED — Police need your help to find a missing female accountant who has been missing since last month on St. Croix.

Jessica Johnston, 37, was last seen on January 8 at the grocery store next to the vegetable market in Frederiksted, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Johnston was wearing dark blue leggings and a denim “jean” jacket top at the time of her disappearance, according to the VIPD.

The missing person is a Caucasian woman with brown eyes, black hair and a light complexion. She stands 5-feet, 9-inches tall and weighs about 195 pounds, VIPD Communications Director Glen Dratte said.

Johnston is known to frequent the Whim area of St. Croix, according to Dratte.

Jessica has some distinguishing marks such as a tattoo of a cross on her left shoulder and a spider on her lower back, the police spokesman said.

The missing woman is an accountant with O’Neill & Associates LLC on King Cross Street in Christiansted.

If you see Jessica Johnston, or know her whereabouts, please contact JaneAnn St. Hall at the Wilbur Francis Command 340-712-6063 or Crime Stoppers USVI at 1-800-222-8477.

UPDATE: Police said on social media February 14 that they had located Johnston on February 10.

John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.