Buckeye tight end J.T. Moore's mother attended his graduation on Sunday, then disappeared. Get more details here.

FRIDAY EVENING UPDATE: Claudette Moore was found safe. No other information was immediately released.

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She had just watched her son graduate from OSU, and had holiday plans with her family.

But this Christmas she's nowhere to be found.

Family of 44-year-old Claudette "Cookie" Moore are desperate for answers this holiday.

They say no one has seen or heard from her since she went for a walk near campus two days ago.



Ask Darryce Moore to describe her mother Claudette, and tears come more easily than words.

“She was everything,” she cried. "Supportive and reliable...I don't know...she's just everything."

She was there when Darryce graduated from OSU in May, and when her brother, former Buckeye Tight End JT Moore graduated just Sunday.

"She was happy. She was happy that my brother, I think he graduated Magna Cum Laude. She was happy about that, and we had the baby with us, and my family, all the family was there."

Claudette, who goes by the nickname "Cookie", had traveled from her home in Youngstown to Columbus for JT's graduation.

Around 3 Tuesday afternoon, Darryce says her mother was angry and emotional about a family conflict when she left a campus-area apartment at the corner of High Street and Norwich Avenue to go for a walk.

"’I'm going for a walk to calm myself down. I'll be back at 5:30.’” Darryce remembers her saying. “She never came back." She left without a car or a change of clothes.



Beverlyn Staples has known Moore all her life, and says she's never disappeared like this before.

"Regardless of what's going on in her life, she always has put her kids first. She'll come down here for their college functions, Darryce's basketball games, JT’s football games. She is very family oriented, and nothing I don't think could have kept her away for Christmas."

That’s what leads her friends and family to assume the worst. They say nothing else about this makes sense.

"I just want to tell her that I love you and I want you to come home,” said Darryce. “We all want you to come home."



Moore's family and friends plan to gather Saturday morning to search the area of Norwich and High for any clues as to what happened to her.

Moore is 5 feet 11, 180 pounds.

She was last seen wearing a black bandana with yellow spots, a black jacket, sunglasses, and a red purse.