Risha Aleena Lewis, 26, vanished after a routine weekend visit in January 2006. On the evening of January 20 she left her home on Moorehouse Drive in New Castle, Delaware, to see a friend in Elkton, Maryland. At about 1:30 a.m. on January 21 she called home to say she was on her way back; that call was the last time her family heard from her. Risha never arrived home and has not been seen or heard from since.

Her white 1997 Ford Crown Victoria was found abandoned in Newark, Delaware on October 17, 2006, but the vehicle yielded no clues. She was known to be HIV-positive and had not contacted her two young children, which was out of character.

The New Castle County Police Department is investigating her as an endangered missing person; around the time she disappeared the Cecil County Sheriff’s Department had a homicide investigation about a woman who may have been killed in the Elkton area. Does anyone who knew Risha or saw her in January 2006 have information that could help locate her?