Emma Baum vanished at 9 months pregnant. Her family is pleading for her return home.
The family of a northern Indiana woman who said she was nine months pregnant when she disappeared more than a month ago is pleading with the public for help locating her whereabouts.
Emma Baum, 25, was last seen on Oct. 10 at a home where her boyfriend lived near 25th Avenue and Connecticut Street, about two miles directly south of downtown Gary, according to information from her family and the Gary Police Department.
Police described the missing woman as standing 5 feet, 3 inches tall, weighing 136 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
According to a flyer posted her family circulating online, she has several tattoos and several scars on her arms.
"She is due to have her baby," Baum's sister Hailey Baum wrote on a flyer circulating on Facebook with the missing woman's photo. "Please, anyone with information..."
'I'm never going to stop looking for her'
Her sister said she's been searching nonstop for the missing woman, who also has three other children.
"I have stopped people walking. I have talked to anybody I could. We're looking in abandoned houses," the missing woman's sister told CBS News.
"We're always going to look for her. I'm never going to stop looking for her," the woman's mother, Jamie Baum, told the outlet.
"My sister is beautiful. She's energetic. She reaches for the sky just like a sunflower, which is her favorite," Baum's other sister Abby Smith told NBC5 in Chicago.
The missing woman's boyfriend and the father of her unborn child was picked up on an unrelated failure to appear in court warrant, the outlet, reported.
Investigation ongoing
Police Cmd. Jack Hamady told the outlet the boyfriend has not been charged in connection to the missing woman's disappearance.
Paste BN has reached out to Gary police for more information.
Anyone with information on Baum’s whereabouts is asked to contact Gary police or The Crime Tip Hotline is 866-CRIME-GP.
Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for Paste BN. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.
Anyone with information on Baum’s whereabouts is asked to contact police at 219-881-1209 or call The Crime Tip Hotline: 866-CRIME-GP.
Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for Paste BN. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.