Krista Lynn Daniel, 42, disappeared from Detroit on the evening of April 22, 2020. A month after her husband’s death, she was caring for five children, ages two to seventeen, and was working in the restaurant industry while hoping to pursue nursing. On the day she vanished she spoke with her mother about 7:20 p.m. and was seen on surveillance video around 8 p.m. leaving Olar’s Party Store near 8 Mile Road and the I-75 Service Drive after meeting a family friend who had given her money.

After leaving the store she was captured on video walking across 8 Mile Road toward Hawthorne Street. Authorities say circumstances after that point are deeply concerning: they believe she may have been assaulted, possibly shot, and forced into the back of a car in the area of 8 Mile and Hawthorne. Her family has not seen or heard from her since. At the time she disappeared she wore a teal winter coat, brown hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and brown boots, and carried a blue bag.

The investigation remains open and the family says they have been left without closure. Who in the Detroit area recalls seeing Krista on April 22, 2020, or has information about 8 Mile and Hawthorne that night?