Susan Nunez was last seen on August 15, 2004, her 38th birthday, leaving the Milwaukee home she shared with her three teenage sons and their grandmother. That morning family members say she took a bath, dressed and walked out on foot, leaving most personal belongings behind. Her 14-year-old son Niko remembers they had planned to play basketball before she ran out of the house.

Family accounts note a history of drug and alcohol abuse and frequenting neighborhood taverns, but say she had usually returned home. In the weeks after she disappeared the family received a few unverified contacts: an unidentified Hispanic man phoned a sister-in-law claiming to know Susan’s whereabouts and assuring her she was alive, and Susan’s grandmother got repeated calls from an older-sounding African-American man asking for Susan. Relatives reported Susan looked thin, unwell and had been seen with bruises prior to August 15.

The official missing-person investigation did not begin until December 13, 2004. There were later unconfirmed sightings in 2005 at local crack houses, including one report saying she had a black eye and short hair. Does anyone have information about Susan’s last known movements or those who saw her in 2004–2005?