Leaona Wright was last seen in the early morning hours of June 6, 2015, in Pendleton, South Carolina. Her mother, Kiara Sullivan, had returned to the Edgewood Square apartment about 5:30 a.m. after a party and left care of Leaona and two older siblings with Sullivan’s boyfriend, Travis Devon Jones. Sullivan later reported checking on Leaona about an hour after giving her juice and then going to sleep. At about 9:30 a.m. Sullivan and Jones said they woke to find the apartment door wide open and the one-year-old missing; a neighbor’s 911 call at 9:47 a.m. started the search.

Investigators quickly questioned that account, noting the three-year-old sister could not have opened the locked door on her own. Within weeks the two older children were placed in protective custody after the sister tested positive for methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana; both adults also tested positive and Jones admitted using drugs while caring for the children. Authorities publicly identified Travis Jones as a suspect in 2018. In July 2020 Jones was arrested and charged with homicide by child abuse, and his brother, Donnie Roderick Jones, was charged with being an accessory after the fact and desecration of human remains. In December 2021 a judge dismissed all charges against both brothers for lack of sufficient evidence. Leaona’s body has never been found and the investigation remains open.

Did anyone in Pendleton around June 6, 2015, see anything that could help explain what happened to Leaona?