Shawnda Renee Baldwin was 32 and lived in Lexington, Kentucky. She was close to her family and spoke with them daily; that contact stopped after she last communicated on December 25, 2011, saying she planned to go out of town with her boyfriend for a couple of weeks. She was last seen wearing a loose, baggy t-shirt, blue jeans and tennis shoes, with brown, mid-back length hair (which could appear black), hazel eyes, a forehead scar, pierced ears, several tattoos (a heart with a banner on her upper left chest and a small heart with a sword through it on her right ankle) and she required glasses to see properly.

The only account of what happened after she left with her boyfriend comes from him: he says they went to Tennessee, where he was hospitalized, and that a mutual friend took Shawnda to a Kroger, then dropped her at a bus station. It’s believed she may have been planning to travel to Louisiana to meet someone she met online. No verifiable contact or confirmed sightings have been reported since December 25, 2011, and the case remains an active missing person investigation.

Did anyone in Tennessee, at the bus station, or in areas between Kentucky and Louisiana remember seeing Shawnda or have information about the trip she was said to have taken?