Jautoun Baber was 31 when he went missing after a trip to Louisiana in April 2016. A welder who had moved back to Forest Park from New Orleans to help care for his grandmother, he was last seen by family on April 1, 2016. The documented timeline shows he traveled from Ohio to Lake Charles on April 3, reportedly with his cousin Deonte Baber, and texted his mother through the early morning of April 8 saying he had arrived back in Ohio.

After that final message Jautoun’s phone went silent. His car was later found abandoned in Cincinnati, and two weeks after his disappearance Deonte was observed driving that vehicle. Deonte was later convicted in an unrelated March 2017 murder and has been publicly identified as a person of interest in Jautoun’s disappearance, but no charges have been filed in this case and the whereabouts of Jautoun remain unknown.

Does anyone have information about Jautoun’s travel to Lake Charles or about the car after April 8, 2016?