Karen Vanessa Young, 52, was at her boyfriend’s sixth-floor apartment at the Roberts III Apartments on Grand River Avenue in Detroit on the late evening of June 7, 2011. After an argument around 11:30 p.m., she arranged a ride and left the apartment; her boyfriend of one year, Randall Childs, followed her downstairs to see her off. Neither Karen nor Randall were seen or heard from again after that moment.

Karen is a Black female with brown hair and brown eyes, wore glasses, had a dark birthmark on the front of her neck and a scar near her elbow. At disappearance she wore a cream-colored top, black pinstriped pants and a black necktie; she reportedly left her purse and personal items behind. Family members say both people would not have left without warning; Karen had been laid off from Detroit’s Parks and Recreation Department shortly before she vanished. Randall’s sister later received a multi-page letter from a prison inmate who had corresponded with her, and that letter was given to police but has not resolved the case.

Who knew Karen or Randall, or who was in or around the Roberts III Apartments that night and might have seen them leave?