Quesola Mimms was a 20-year-old mother from Chicago’s South Side who disappeared after leaving her mother’s home on September 21, 2016. Family members say she was preparing to start a new factory job and was last seen that day; police later said no official missing-person report had been filed, while the family maintained they had reported her missing.

On September 23, 2016, a worker at the McKinley Park lagoon near 2210 West Pershing Road found a severed human head inside a bag. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the remains as Quesola’s on November 16, 2016, and on December 22, 2016 officially classified her death as a homicide by unspecified means. Despite searches and the lagoon being drained, the rest of her body was never recovered, so the location and date of the fatal attack were not established.

Investigators noted Quesola had filed a police report for criminal damage to property on September 12, 2016, but authorities said that incident was not believed to involve violence and no link to her homicide was established. No suspect had been publicly identified; a $2,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

If anyone saw Quesola in mid-September 2016 or has information about her final movements, please come forward to investigators.