In the winter of 2014, 45-year-old insurance broker Irma Mkrtchyan vanished from Las Vegas after a January 19 meeting with a client at the Allanza Apartments near South Durango Drive and West Desert Inn. Her boss got a text saying she needed to miss work to attend an ex-husband’s aunt’s funeral in California, while family received a different text saying she was on a business trip to California and that her phone was dying because she forgot a charger. Her car was reportedly left at the apartment complex with the keys hidden in the gas cap, and no funeral in California was ever found.

Irma had been living with her ex-husband, Ara Marutyan, with whom she shared two college-age children; they divorced in 2007 but continued to live in the same home. Family members describe her as a dedicated mother who would not have abandoned her children, and her brother traveled from New York to help search. Las Vegas homicide detectives took over the case a few months later. Police said Marutyan failed a polygraph and they believed he had not been truthful; he denies wrongdoing. The son was also investigated.

No resolution has been reported and the disappearance remains unsolved. If anyone knew Irma, her routines, contacts, or movements around January 19, 2014, please share information with investigators.