A’shia Monique Jenkins was two months old when she disappeared in Baltimore in February 2003. On the morning of February 11 her father, Kenneth Gabriel Jenkins Jr., reported that an unlicensed taxicab had been involved in an armed robbery and that the car had driven off with A’shia inside, wearing a purple snowsuit and hat, while he escaped with her twin sister. An Amber Alert was issued — Maryland’s first — but was canceled within two days after investigators noted inconsistencies in the father’s account.

Investigators say Kenneth Jenkins later confessed that A’shia died in the home in the early morning hours when he accidentally smothered her while trying to quiet her crying. He told police he panicked because of an outstanding probation warrant and placed the infant’s body in a dumpster. Searches of landfills and other sites failed to recover her remains, and it is believed her body may have been incinerated with the trash. A taped confession was accidentally erased by a detective, but Jenkins was charged and in December 2003 entered an Alford plea to involuntary manslaughter.

A’shia remains listed as an endangered missing person and has never been found. Did anyone in Baltimore in February 2003 see a purple-snowsuit-clad infant or have information about A’shia’s last hours?