Fifteen-year-old Yasmin Acree disappeared from her Chicago home on January 15, 2008. She had returned that evening from the North Lawndale YMCA, done laundry, and slept in her basement bedroom. The next morning she was gone; the padlock on the gate leading to the house had been cut and the basement bedroom door appeared forced open.

Family members say the initial police response treated Yasmin as a runaway after some school friends reported she had talked about running away. Investigators did not immediately dust for fingerprints or collect the broken lock; the cut lock was recovered two days later and yielded no fingerprints. Yasmin had no history of running away, was a freshman at Austin Polytech Academy and was about to start a job.

In 2011 a hidden diary found in Yasmin’s room mentioned Jimmie Terrell Smith, a former tenant who reportedly had taken an interest in her; Smith, later arrested for multiple rapes, told jail officials he knew what happened to Yasmin but has not been charged in connection with her disappearance. Yasmin’s adoptive mother died in 2014 and the family continues to seek answers; foul play is suspected.

If anyone knew Yasmin, her routines, or saw anything unusual in the neighborhood around January 15, 2008, what information can be shared?