Najah Ferrell, 30, left her Avon, Indiana home in the pre-dawn hours of March 15, 2019, en route to the third day of orientation at a new job with Panera Bread. Surveillance shows her black 2018 Nissan Altima leaving her apartment complex around 3 a.m.; her fiancé and children were the last to see her. She never arrived at work and failed to pick up her children from school later that day, prompting alarm from family who described that as wholly out of character.

Nearly two weeks later the Altima was found abandoned in a Studio Movie Grill parking lot about two miles from her new workplace, and some personal items including her ID and bank cards were recovered near I-465 and Lafayette Road. In April 2019 a human foot bearing a tattoo of Najah’s name was found in a Crown Point retention pond and DNA later confirmed it was hers; the coroner determined the foot had been severed after death. Despite searches and a multi-agency investigation, no other remains have been found and no arrests or publicly named suspects exist. Investigators say she was believed to have been targeted by someone she knew, but leads have cooled.

Did anyone in the area know Najah or see her Altima around March 15, 2019?