Tonia Carmichael, a 52-year-old African American woman from Cleveland, Ohio, was last seen on November 10, 2008. She had struggled with drug addiction in the years before her disappearance, a struggle her children watched as it changed her life.

In October 2009 her remains were found buried in a shallow grave behind a home on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland. Her body was severely decomposed and identifiable only by DNA testing and plastic jewelry that remained on the skeletal remains. She was the first of eleven victims identified in what became known as the Cleveland house of horrors. All eleven victims were African American women, many with histories of addiction who lived in or around the Mount Pleasant neighborhood.

Anthony Sowell, a 51-year-old convicted sex offender who had served 15 years for attempted rape and who moved into the Imperial Avenue house after his 2005 release, was arrested and charged in the murders of eleven women, including Tonia Carmichael. He also faced additional charges including rape and attempted rape. Carmichael’s family later filed a civil lawsuit naming multiple city and county agencies and others, alleging negligence in the investigation of her disappearance; many claims were later dismissed.

Does anyone have information about Tonia’s life in Cleveland or her movements in November 2008?