Teaira Batey was 28 when she disappeared in mid-January 2014 from Gary, Indiana. Her family grew alarmed when she failed to show up for a birthday party she had helped plan for her two-year-old son. Batey, a mother of three, was described by her family as kind-hearted, trusting and developmentally disabled; they said they believed her vulnerability put her at risk.

Her body was later found in an abandoned house in Gary. Darren Vann, arrested in October 2014 at age 43 after the murder of Afrikka Hardy, confessed during interrogation to killing six other women and led authorities to multiple bodies in abandoned buildings, including Batey. In March 2016 Vann was charged in Batey’s killing along with four other women; he later pleaded guilty to seven murders and received life without parole as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty. Families of the victims expressed frustration with the Gary police, saying earlier action on missing-person reports might have made a difference.

Did anyone who knew Teaira notice anything unusual about her contacts or movements in the weeks before she vanished?