Overview

Last Seen: March 30, 1976
Location: Oakland Park, Broward County, Florida
Age: 22
NamUs: MP11311
Status: Missing

Main circumstances: Victor Laveski Coleman disappeared from Oakland Park on March 30, 1976 and has never been heard from again. Public records provide almost no details concerning the events immediately preceding his disappearance. No specific last-seen address, publicly identified suspect, or publicly established explanation for his disappearance was located. His case remains represented in national missing-person resources.

Detailed Case Breakdown

Victor Laveski Coleman: The 1976 Disappearance from Oakland Park, Florida

More than 50 years after 22-year-old Victor Laveski Coleman disappeared from Oakland Park, Florida, remarkably little information about the circumstances of his case has been made public.

Coleman was last seen on March 30, 1976. He was never heard from again, and his disappearance remains listed as a missing-person case.

Who Was Victor Laveski Coleman?

Victor Laveski Coleman was born on October 24, 1953. At the time he disappeared, he was 22 years old.

Coleman was a Black man who stood approximately 6 feet tall and weighed about 170 pounds. He had black hair and brown eyes. One distinguishing feature noted in missing-person records is a mole on his nose.

Despite the decades that have passed, publicly available sources provide very little information about Coleman’s life, including his occupation, family circumstances, residence, relationships or activities immediately before his disappearance.

The Disappearance of Victor Coleman

On March 30, 1976, Coleman was last seen in Oakland Park, a city in Broward County, Florida.

The publicly available account of his disappearance is exceptionally brief. No confirmed last-seen address or specific location within Oakland Park is identified in the major public case summaries reviewed for this article.

There is also no publicly documented description of who last saw Coleman, what he was doing that day, what clothing he was wearing, whether he had access to a vehicle, or whether anything unusual occurred before he disappeared.

After March 30, Coleman was never heard from again.

A Case With Few Publicly Known Circumstances

Coleman’s disappearance differs from many long-term missing-person cases because so little of the original investigation appears in publicly accessible records.

Available sources do not publicly identify a suspect or person of interest. They also do not describe evidence of foul play, a confirmed voluntary departure, an accident or another explanation for his disappearance.

For that reason, it is important not to characterize Coleman as a confirmed homicide victim. His publicly available case classification remains that of a missing person.

The absence of publicly released details does not necessarily mean investigators have no additional information. Law-enforcement agencies routinely withhold portions of investigative files, and records from a disappearance dating to 1976 may not be available online.

Victor Coleman’s NamUs Case

Coleman is listed in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System under NamUs #MP11311.

His NamUs listing provides an important modern reference number for a disappearance that occurred decades before national computerized missing-person databases existed in their present form.

Coleman’s continued presence in NamUs provides a centralized record that can be used when investigators, medical examiners and researchers compare long-term missing-person cases with unidentified remains.

Unidentified-Person Comparisons

Public NamUs-derived information reproduced in case-research discussions shows that Coleman has been compared against unidentified-person cases over the years.

One documented example involves an unidentified Black man whose remains were recovered from the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Beach County, Florida, in March 1999. Coleman appears among the missing people listed as exclusions for that unidentified man.

An exclusion is significant because it indicates that a particular unidentified person has been determined not to be the missing individual being compared. It should not be interpreted as evidence connecting Coleman to the unidentified person’s death.

Such comparisons illustrate one of the continuing investigative avenues available in decades-old disappearances: comparing missing people against unidentified human remains.

Latest Publicly Available Information

As of September 2026, Victor Laveski Coleman’s disappearance remains represented in current public missing-person resources. His NamUs record is MP11311.

No publicly accessible announcement located during research for this article reports that Coleman has been found, that his disappearance has been solved, or that a suspect has been identified.

The most recent public activity located specifically concerning Coleman does not reveal a new investigative breakthrough. In April 2026, his Websleuths discussion was updated to make his NamUs number easier to locate through the forum’s search system. That was community case-awareness activity rather than an announcement from law enforcement.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office continues to maintain resources for unresolved cases and encourages people with information about unsolved crimes to contact Broward Crime Stoppers. Because Coleman’s public case information remains extremely limited, even information that may have seemed insignificant decades ago could potentially provide useful context to investigators.

Why Victor Coleman’s Case Still Matters

When Coleman disappeared in March 1976, there was no NamUs database and investigators did not have access to today’s DNA technology, computerized record systems, digital genealogy tools or nationwide searchable databases of missing and unidentified people.

Today, his name and identifying information can be compared with cases far beyond Broward County.

However, technology cannot necessarily reconstruct the circumstances surrounding the day someone disappeared. Witness recollections, family information, photographs, old correspondence, employment records and other surviving documentation can sometimes provide information unavailable in the original public record.

More than half a century later, the central question in Victor Laveski Coleman’s case remains the same:

What happened to Victor after he was last seen in Oakland Park, Florida, on March 30, 1976?

Very Brief Case Summary

Last Seen: March 30, 1976
Location: Oakland Park, Broward County, Florida
Age: 22
NamUs: MP11311
Status: Missing

Main circumstances: Victor Laveski Coleman disappeared from Oakland Park on March 30, 1976 and has never been heard from again. Public records provide almost no details concerning the events immediately preceding his disappearance. No specific last-seen address, publicly identified suspect, or publicly established explanation for his disappearance was located. His case remains represented in national missing-person resources.