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Kierra Coles, 27, has been missing since Oct. 2. She was last seen leaving her apartment at 81st Street and Vernon Avenue on Chicago's South Side wearing her postal worker uniform.
By Will Jones
Friday, November 30, 2018 04:56PM
CHICAGO (WLS) --
The search for a missing, pregnant U.S. Postal worker continued Friday in Riverdale.
Kierra Coles, 27, has been missing since Oct. 2. She was last seen leaving her apartment at 81st Street and Vernon Avenue on Chicago's South Side wearing her postal worker uniform. Coles was about three months pregnant when she disappeared.
Chicago police said last month that "foul play is suspected."
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Community activist Andrew Holmes organized a search Friday of Whistler Woods Forest Preserve, choosing this location based off of tips from the community. He declined to go into further specifics so as not to jeopardize the police investigation.
"We don't want to search this forest preserve and then find a deceased body, but at the same time, if we do, then at least the family would know," he said.
Michael Airheart, a volunteer aiding with the search, had similar hopes to Holmes.
"I'm praying that we don't come across nothing, and that she's still alive and that she could go home and continue her life and have kids," he said.
Coles' family did not participate in the search, though Holmes said the family was aware of the effort. He said Coles' mother is still trying to be hopeful for a happy ending.
"It took you nine months to bring this child here, and then not hearing from her, and it's been this long, yes, sleepless nights. That's all I can tell you," he said of Coles' mom.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a $25,000 reward in this case. Deborah Butler is a postal employee who was helping search, though she didn't know Coles personally.
"We love our postal family," she said. "If anything happens, we are there."
The search party did discover bones in the area, but it was unclear whether they were human or the remains of Kierra Coles. Area South detectives took possession of the bones to determine whether they were human, according to Chicago Police Department spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi.
Coles was described as a 5-foot-4, 125-pound black woman with brown eyes, black hair and a medium brown complexion, police said. She has a tattoo of a heart on her right hand and one that reads "Lucky Libra" on her back.
Anyone with information about her was asked to call the Area South Special Victims Unit at (312) 747-8274 or the U.S. Postal Inspection Service at (877) 876-2455.
Chicago Police Suspect Foul Play In Disappearance of Kierra Coles
The pregnant postal worker has not been seen since Oct. 2.
Nigel Roberts
Fears are growing that Kierra Coles, the missing Chicago postal worker, may have been harmed, but Chicago detectives are terrible when it comes to solving homicides.
The Chicago Police Department suspect that foul play is involved in Coles’ disappearance, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
Coles, who’s three months pregnant, was last seen on Oct. 2 in her South Side neighborhood wearing her U.S. Postal Service uniform, even though she had called in sick that day. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service offered a $25,000 reward on Oct. 15 for information that could help authorities figure out what happened to her. Hopefully, federal involvement will help to solve this case.
“Based on the length of time of Kierra Coles disappearance and the fact that she has fallen off the grid, police suspect possible foul play,” the police department said. “We continue to get leads and are following up diligently on those leads.”
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While Chicago’s shockingly high homicide rate has decreased in recent months, an astonishing 74 percent of murders go unsolved in the Windy City, according to research conducted by the Washington Post. Investigators in Chicago and Baltimore solved relatively few homicides among police departments in 50 of the nation’s largest cities, the Post’s analysis of 52,000 criminal homicides revealed.
Coles’ mother, Karen Phillips, reported her missing on Oct. 4 after not hearing from her daughter and cellphone calls went directly into voicemail. The 27-year-old missing woman’s car had been parked outside her apartment, but Phillips was unable to gain access to it. Coles’ purse and cell phone were inside the car.
A neighbor’s surveillance video shows Coles walking pass her car and across the street before disappearing out of the frame.
Coles was described as standing 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing about 125 pounds, investigators said. She has a tattoo of a heart on her right hand and another tattoo that says “Lucky Libra” on her back.
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Chicago Police Suspect Foul Play In Disappearance of Kierra Coles was originally published on newsone.com
. Not sure if thats saying he stopped cooperating or not,not sure if that was even his baby. 3 months is right around the time where many women start to show. Maybe she decided to tell whoever got her pregnant and hasn't been seen since. If she left her phone and purse in her car, it seems like went to go sit in someones car outside her house, near her car. Or she went to somebodies house nearby,but more than likely was somewhere she could watch her phone and purse.
