Laresha Deana Walker was 23 and the mother of a two-year-old when she vanished from her Edwards Avenue duplex in Nashville in November 1999. On the evening of Friday, November 19, 1999, she dropped her son at her sister’s house, spoke to her father on the phone later that night, and a neighbor reported hearing her argue with an unidentified man outside her home. That call and the neighbor’s account are the last known contacts.

When Laresha did not pick up her son the next day, her sister checked the duplex and found lights on and loud music playing; Laresha herself was gone. Her purse, essential heart medication and the clothes she’d been wearing were left inside. Her maroon 1995 Oldsmobile Achieva, Tennessee plate 419-ABG, with a long scratch on the driver’s side, was missing and has never been located. Police have said the undisturbed home suggests she did not leave voluntarily, and the disappearance remains an open investigation with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

Laresha’s family stresses she would not have abandoned her child. If anyone knew Laresha, saw her car after November 19, 1999, or has information about the argument outside her home that night, please come forward.