Ebonee Shanetta Spears, 30, vanished from Wilmington, North Carolina, on January 15, 2016. The summer before she disappeared she had been diagnosed with lupus and had recently started a new antidepressant. In the days around her disappearance family members reported increasing confusion and paranoia; the night before she was last seen they met her at the Wilmington Police Department parking lot seeking psychiatric help. Paramedics responded but no involuntary commitment was made, and she spent that night at her parents’ home.

On the day she disappeared she had breakfast with her parents and was dropped at her apartment in Taylor Home Estates. That evening she appeared distressed, flagged down a Boys & Girls Club van saying she felt followed, and was recorded on surveillance entering Wilmington Police Department headquarters about 8:00 p.m. Disoriented and unable to use a payphone, she left after roughly ten minutes.

Extensive searches including on-foot patrols, helicopter and K-9 efforts and follow-up leads as far as Atlanta turned up nothing. The case is classified as endangered missing; there has been no phone activity since the night she disappeared and investigators say they have not found evidence of foul play. Does anyone who knew Ebonee, lived in Taylor Home Estates, or remembers seeing her in Wilmington on January 15 have information to share?