Six-year-old Kyeimah Spann vanished from her Seattle home in the winter of 2005, with reports placing her disappearance on or around January 1, 2005. Concerns grew when her mother, Samara Spann, moved to California with the other children in mid-February and initially told authorities Kyeimah was with the child’s father, a claim later shown to be false.

In March 2005 Samara’s father told police he had been told his daughter drowned Kyeimah, and a tip to the Department of Social and Health Services prompted an official search. Neighbors reported hearing a woman screaming and a gunshot near the time Kyeimah was last seen. Police later arrested Samara in California on an unrelated child-abuse charge; the missing-person inquiry developed into a homicide investigation alleging Samara confessed to drowning Kyeimah, then dismembering and disposing of the remains in the Elochoman River. Kyeimah’s body has not been recovered.

If anyone has information about Kyeimah, where she might have been taken, or about the family’s movements in early 2005, please come forward.