Keilah Elizabeth Loatman, 43, vanished from Detroit on the night of April 29, 2007, after leaving a tile-laying job in the Palmer Woods area. Her live-in boyfriend received a call from a man who gave his name as Mitchell and told him Keilah’s red 1997 GMC Safari had a flat tire. When the boyfriend asked to speak with her, Keilah took the phone and said she was all right but the vehicle was undriveable; she was advised to take a cab home. That phone call was the last confirmed contact with her.

At about 5:00 a.m. the next morning the Safari (Michigan plate 3GPQ44) was found abandoned near Hamilton and Pitkin with both front tires missing and Keilah’s purse gone. Keilah, also known as Kay and Lisi, is described as a Black woman, light complexion, 5 feet 6 inches, about 140 pounds, brown eyes, reddish-brown hair in long braids, a pierced nose she usually did not jewelry, and a small scar on her abdomen. The identity and role of the man who called himself Mitchell remain unknown, and there is no confirmed sighting of Keilah after that call.

Did anyone in the Detroit area remember seeing Keilah, the red Safari, or a man identifying himself as Mitchell that night?