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Three-month-old Janna Rivera was last seen on May 28, 2015, in a Candy Apple Boulevard subdivision in Indianapolis while in the care of her father, Jeffrey D. Fairbanks. The next morning Janna’s mother placed a frantic 911 call saying at first the baby was dead and then saying her boyfriend had taken the child the night before. Fairbanks gave police multiple, conflicting accounts, from saying Janna died in her sleep to admitting he had put a pillow over her face to muffle crying while denying he applied pressure.

Janna’s older sisters told investigators they heard her crying around noon the day she disappeared and watched Fairbanks take the baby, eyes closed, to his car and leave for eight hours; they said he returned intoxicated and crying that Janna was dead. Searches of dumpsters, a trash transfer station and several landfills, plus bloodhounds and divers scouring woods and a pond, produced no body. A bloodstained blanket identified by the mother as the infant’s was recovered.

Investigators concluded foul play was likely. Fairbanks was arrested in August 2015 and after a 2017 trial was convicted of neglect of a dependent causing death and sentenced to thirty years. Janna’s body has never been found. Does anyone have information about Janna’s last day or movements around May 28, 2015?