Anith Jones, 35, of Merrillville, Indiana, was reported missing October 8, 2014 after her family lost contact with her. Her body was found ten days later, on October 18, 2014, in the basement of an abandoned home in Gary, Indiana, as part of an investigation into multiple killings in that area. An autopsy later determined she had been strangled to death.

Investigators linked Jones’s death to Darren Deon Vann, a then 43-year-old convicted sex offender, after his arrest in an unrelated murder. Vann confessed to killing Jones, described pretending to be an escort service customer to gain her trust, luring her to a vacant house, strangling her with a cord, placing her body in a trash can and moving it to the abandoned house where it was concealed under tires and teddy bears. Vann claimed a third party paid him $300 and supplied drugs to carry out the killing; no other person has been charged in Jones’s death.

Does anyone have information about Jones’s life in Merrillville or who might have been connected to her in 2014?