Portia Lakendra Nesbitt, 35, of Waynesboro, Georgia, was officially reported missing on July 26, 2021, though her family had not had contact with her for nearly a year before that report. She is believed to have been living with her boyfriend, Chadwick Washington, after moving from Dublin, Georgia. A relative told the Burke County Sheriff’s Office they feared she might be in danger and possibly being held against her will.

Investigators found Portia’s personal belongings in the home she shared with Washington but no sign of her. Around the summer of 2020, Washington allegedly began withdrawing money from her account as her disability checks were deposited; possible biological evidence was also recovered from the trunk of his car and sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab. In October 2022 Washington pleaded guilty to financial transaction card fraud for using Portia’s debit card after she disappeared and received a sentence that, after credit for time served, resulted in his release—an outcome that distressed her family. No one has been formally named as a suspect in Portia’s disappearance and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Waynesboro or Dublin know Portia’s routines, associates, or where she might have traveled between summer 2020 and July 2021?