Keeshae Jacobs, 21, left her Richmond, Virginia home the night of September 26, 2016, saying she would spend the night at a friend’s. She last checked in by text to her mother around 11:00 p.m., then disappeared after being seen in the 3100 block of East Broad Street in Church Hill. At the time she was wearing black basketball shorts, a pink scarf, and pink and black Nike basketball sneakers, and had several distinctive tattoos including a leaf on her right foot, paw prints on her right thigh, flowers on her right shoulder and wrist, and the name Toni on her left shoulder.

Keeshae’s mother reported her missing after two days and pressed for an investigation. Attention focused on Otis Lee Omar Tucker, the man at the house where Keeshae was last seen. Authorities recovered Keeshae’s phone SIM card, a missing-person flyer, and a blood-stained rug with her blood in Tucker’s residence; he gave conflicting accounts of when he last saw her. Years later, after Tucker’s separate arrest and conviction for another murder, he told Virginia detectives he had been with Keeshae when she died of a drug overdose, had dismembered her, and had disposed of the remains so they are not expected to be found. He did not admit to killing her.