Karen Angela Ferrell vanished from her Baltimore home in December 2010. Her children returned from school to find the front door open and her wallet and necessary medication still inside, prompting a missing person report. Days later a foul odor in the house led her brother-in-law to the basement, where he discovered Ferrell’s body, unclothed and wrapped in plastic.

Baltimore police initially reported no obvious signs of physical trauma and the medical examiner was to determine cause of death. Friends and family described her as a devoted mother who had been planning a Christmas dinner; she had sought a protective order against a man two years earlier and had recently gone through a difficult breakup.

If anyone knew Karen, her routine, visitors to her home in December 2010, or has information about the basement discovery, please come forward.