Ten-year-old Nakota Kelly disappeared from Indianapolis on July 18, 2020, after a court-ordered weekend visitation with his father, Anthony Dibiah. Nakota, a biracial boy with brown hair and brown eyes who lived with his mother in Wabash, had told his mother days earlier that he feared his father would kill him after an argument over a phone call. His mother had reported alleged abuse to the Department of Child Services multiple times; those reports were not substantiated and the visitation went ahead.

Nakota last spoke to his mother by phone on the evening of July 18. A few hours later Dibiah called a relative saying he had killed his son, prompting a police welfare check at Dibiah’s apartment; officers heard movement but did not force entry. The next day police returned after Dibiah sent a text saying his son was in Heaven and found blood and brain matter in the apartment; Nakota and his father were missing. Dibiah was later arrested in Missouri. In September 2023 Dibiah pleaded guilty but mentally ill to murdering Nakota, admitting he strangled and dismembered the boy; he has not revealed where Nakota’s remains are.

Nakota’s mother has sued the Indiana Department of Child Services alleging negligence. If anyone has information about Nakota’s whereabouts or remembers seeing him during that July 2020 visitation, please share what you know.