An Indiana girl was 9 months pregnant when she disappeared over three months in the past, and her household has suspicions about her final whereabouts.
Mom of three Emma Baum, 25, went lacking Oct. 10 in Gary, Indiana, and he or she was about to present start to her fourth little one.
Baum was final seen being dropped off at her boyfriend’s home, her sister Hailey Baum-Waddell advised Fox Information Digital.
“Looking for Emma has been a very struggling thing for everybody, mentally and physically and emotionally … but we’re not going to stop looking for her,” Baum-Waddell stated. “I think if people keep going on and chanting that something needs to be done and chanting her name … just get the word out because a lot of people know, but not everybody knows.”
Authorities acquired a lacking individuals report for Baum from her household Oct. 28, Gary Police Cmdr. Jack Hamady advised Fox Information Digital.
“A couple of days went by. … We all started, like, messaging each other, ‘Hey, have you heard from Emma? Anybody seen her? Can you message one of her friends to get a hold of her boyfriend?’ And it was kind of just a ring around with everybody and everyone’s just trying to figure it out,” Baum-Waddell stated.
“Then we’re like, ‘OK, well, this is not normal.’ … That’s when my mom really started to panic,” she added. “Then my mom ended up going to the police station.”
Officers with the Gary Police Division have used Okay-9s on a number of searches within the space, and the Lake County Sheriff’s Division has assisted in a number of of the searches, Hamady stated.
“We have searched a house, apartment, recreational vehicles and one other property,” he added.
Along with the police investigation, Baum-Waddell stated she and different kin of Baum have been organizing a widespread search after a social media put up of hers drew tons of of prepared individuals.
“There’s been a lot of people who have offered to come out and look for her,” she stated. “We’ve talked it over with other search groups. I made a post online just saying, you know, ‘Hands of how many people would be willing to come out,’ and I posted it in multiple groups.”
Baum lived in Portage, Indiana, however was visiting her boyfriend in Gary when she was final seen.
Baum-Waddell stated her sister didn’t have a working cellphone when she disappeared and that though her sister could have “gone off and done her own thing” for a number of days at a time, she would by no means disappear for such an extended time period.
“That day, she was supposed to go with her boyfriend … to the phone store and get it activated, and she never got the phone activated,” she stated. “She’s been completely silent on everything, and now that’s not like her.”
Baum-Waddell additionally talked about her sister’s devotion as a mom and the shut relationship she has together with her oldest son.
“They have a freaking crazy, unbreakable bond,” she shared. “For her not to be here to see him on Christmas or Thanksgiving or … New Year’s. It’s unreal. There’s no way she would do that to him.”
Baum-Waddell believes her sister’s boyfriend is “hiding something,” she advised Fox Information Digital, and Baum’s mom believes the boyfriend had one thing to do together with her disappearance, WGN9 reported.
“We have not charged anyone with the disappearance of Emma Baum, and she has not been located yet,” Hamady stated. “We continue to search and interview individuals that are or maybe associated with this case.”
Baum’s boyfriend, who was initially in custody in an unrelated case, was launched from Lake County Jail and is awaiting his court docket date for the separate fees, Hamady added.
Baum is roughly 5 toes, 3 inches tall, weighs round 136 kilos and has brown hair and brown eyes. She has a number of scars and tattoos, and he or she typically wears colourful wigs.
“Emma gave everybody her all, gave them all the love that she could,” Baum-Waddell emotionally stated about her sister. “She has these massive brown eyes, and he or she all the time simply wished to make everyone, you realize, giggle or be ok with themselves or have them really feel included.
“It’s very difficult because now it’s not just her that’s missing. It’s her baby. And you don’t want to think, you know, the worst because who would want to, you know, hurt a girl and her baby?” she added. “We’re just hoping to find her safe.”
Anybody with data on Baum’s disappearance is requested to contact the Gary Police Division at (219) 881-1209.
