Arieanna Renee Day was three months old when she disappeared from her family home on Hanover Avenue in Roanoke, Virginia on September 11, 2018. Her mother, Jessica Day, told police she had put the baby to bed that evening and found her missing about an hour later; officers reported no sign of forced entry at the residence.

Arieanna’s father, Andrew Terry, gave investigators a statement saying Jessica handed him the infant, who he described as bruised and barely alive; Terry said the baby died in his car en route to Montgomery County and that he buried her in a shallow grave dug with his hands. He later recanted, then returned to the original account, and searches at the location he identified turned up no body. Jessica Day also made multiple, contradictory statements, at various times saying Arieanna had been taken by an adoption agency, sold, or given to Terry’s cousin; she acknowledged memory lapses during testimony.

Terry was tried on a charge of illegal disposal of a body; the trial ended in a mistrial when the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict and the charge was subsequently dropped. Arieanna has not been found and authorities consider her likely deceased; both parents remain persons of interest. Does anyone have information about Arieanna’s last known hours or who else might have been in or around the Hanover Avenue home that night?