MISSING: Kierra Coles and Keeshae Jacobs
Two women. Two cities. Two years apart. Both of them – vanished without a trace. Both are mysteries that need to be solved.
Please contact the authorities If you have any information about the following cases:
Kierra Coles
If you have information on the disappearance of Kierra Coles please contact the Chicago Police Special Victim’s Unit at 312-747-8274.
Keeshae Jacobs
If you have any information on the disappearance of Keeshae Jacobs please contact Crime Stoppers at 804-780-1000 or text I-TIP to 274637 to submit tips anonymously.
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Episode Source Material
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Kierra Coles Sources
- NBC Chicago: Video shows postal worker in hours before she was reported missing
- Patch (South Side, IL): Pregnant Postal Worker Missing, Family Pleads For Answers, by Jonah Meadows
- NewsOne: Kierra Coles’ mother addresses rumors that boyfriend is involved in her disappearance, by NewsOne Staff
- ABC News (National): Where is Kierra Coles? The long-missing, pregnant Chicago postal worker was due to give birth last week, by Christina Carrega
- NewsOne: Where is Kierra Coles? Everything we know about missing Chicago pregnant postal worker, by Nigel Roberts
- NBC Scene of the Crime: Episode 2 – What happened to Kierra Coles?
- ABC News (National): Mom desperate for answers 1 year after pregnant postal worker Kierra Coles vanishes: ‘End this nightmare’, by Emily Shapiro
- WGN 9 Chicago: Video shows missing pregnant woman from South Chicago on day she was last seen
- NBC 5 Chicago: Pregnant Postal Worker Missing From South Side For Nearly 1 Week, by Regina Waldroup
- NBC News (National): Chicago police narrow down persons of interest in disappearance of expectant mother Kierra Coles, by Bianca Hillier
- WGCI 107.5: Karen Phillips, mother of Kierra Coles, talks rumors and disappearance
- Chicago Tribune: Police investigating whether missing mail carrier Kierra Coles met with foul play, by Madeline Buckley
- CNN: Crime and Justice With Ashleigh Banfield
- CBS 2 Chicago: Pregnant Postal Worker Missing For A Week
- Chicago Sun-Times: Woman missing for 6 days from South Chicago, by Sun-Times Wire
- CBS 2 Chicago: Reward Offered For Missing Postal Worker
- ABC 13 (Houston, TX): Search continues for missing pregnant postal worker from Chicago, by John Garcia
- CBS 2 Chicago: Kierra Coles: USPIS Offering $25,000 Reward For Missing Letter Carrier
- Chicago Tribune: Police investigating whether missing mail carrier Kierra Coles met with foul play, by Madeline Buckley
- Chicago Sun-Times: $28.5K reward offered for information on mail carrier missing from South Chicago, by Sun-Times Wire
- CBS 2 Chicago: Foul play now suspected in case of missing postal worker Kierra Coles, by Dana Kozlov
- NBC 5 Chicago: EXCLUSIVE: Kierra Coles Disappearance: Woman in Video Played Nationwide Wasn’t Her, Mother Says, by Rob Stafford and Lisa Capitanini
- The Dispatch (Moline, IL): Postal worker remains missing, by Associated Press
- Fox 32 Chicago: Search intensifies for missing postal worker
- ABC 7 Chicago: Search for Kierra Coles, pregnant postal worker missing nearly 2 months, continues, by Will Jones
- ABC 7 Chicago: Kierra Coles’ family offers $45K reward for information on missing pregnant postal worker, by ABC7 Chicago Digital Team
- ABC News (National): Missing pregnant postal worker Kierra Coles’ disappearance still a mystery 2 years later: ‘What really happened?’, by Emily Shapiro
Keeshae Jacobs Sources
- NBC News: Mother of missing daughter holds ‘Missing Person Day’ to help support families with missing loved ones, By Bianca Hillier
- Still a mystery: Her last night out (season 2, episode 9)
- ABC 8 (Richmond, VA): United Communities Against Crime holding ‘Candlelight Prayer’ for missing 21-year-old Richmond woman, by Danielle Guichard
- WTVR (Richmond, VA): Search continues for Keeshae Jacobs, 10 days after disappearance, by Jon Burkett
- NewsOne: ‘I Just Feel Like Someone Has Her:’ Virginia Mom’s Long Wait For Missing Daughter, by Jeff Mays
- Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA): Her daughter is missing. Her son was murdered. This Mother’s Day, she graduates in their honor, by Mark Robinson
- Elite Daily: What happens when people think your missing daughter is a joke, by Marquaysa Battle
- Wavy 10 (Norfolk, VA): Northam signs bill creating new alert program to aid in search for missing adults, by Evanne Armour
- WTVR (Richmond, VA): Keeshae Jacobs missing: ‘Give us a lead,’ grandmother begs, by Jake Burns
- NBC 12 (Richmond, VA): Family of missing 21-year-old woman not losing hope, by Brent Solomon
- NBC 12 (Richmond, VA): Police expand search for missing Richmond 21-year-old woman, by WWBT
- WTVR (Richmond, VA): Keeshae Jacobs missing: ‘We really need your help,’ says police chief, by Alix Bryan and Chelsea Rarrick
- WTVR (Richmond, VA): Crime Insider: Man accused of burning baby has ties to missing Keeshae Jacobs, by Jon Burkett
- WTVR (Richmond, VA): Crucial development in Keeshae Jacobs case involves man in prison: Crime Insider sources, by Jon Burkett
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