The sister of a former NFL player has renewed her call for help finding him, seven months after he first went missing.
Ex-cornerback Sam Beal was last seen on July 13, 2025, when authorities say he dropped off his girlfriend at her family’s house and headed toward Virginia Beach.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Jan. 10, Essence Zhane asked anyone who may have seen Beal to contact the Kentwood (Virginia) Police Department.
‘We’ve done everything we could on our end to piece things together and at this point we’re in desperate need of support on all ends,’ Zhane wrote, according to a Fox News report. ‘I’m not here to answer a bunch of why’s and how’s I just need this to land in the right direction to gain some form of answers or closure.’
According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System database, Beal, 29, ‘did not bring anything with him aside from the clothes he was wearing, a pair of slides, and his wallet that contained his banking card and driver’s license.’
The girlfriend’s car was later recovered in Virginia Beach ‘with Samuel’s shoes and socks on the floor of the front passenger seat.’
Beal − a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan − played three seasons at Western Michigan and was a third-round selection by the Giants in the 2018 NFL supplemental draft.
He played nine games over two seasons, recording 27 tackles and one safety.
