‘We’re pleading with you’: Year after disappearance, CPD asks for public’s help in Kierra Coles case

Coles, a U.S. Post Office employee, was 26 years old and three months pregnant when she was reported missing on Oct. 2, 2018. She was last seen near 82nd and Coles.

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Kierra Coles

Chicago police

A year after her disappearance, the Chicago Police Department once again is appealing to members of the public to come forward with any information about Kierra Coles.

Coles, a U.S. Post Office employee, was 26 years old and three months pregnant when she was reported missing on Oct. 2, 2018. She was last seen near 82nd and Coles.

“Her family is desperately seeking any information at this time from the public,” CPD Lt. Senora Ben said during a news conference Thursday at police headquarters. “We’re pleading with you, asking and begging, anyone out there that knows anything of Kierra’s disappearance, please call into the Area South detective division.”

Speaking to the media last year, Coles’ father theorized that the disappearance involved the father of Coles’ child and his girlfriend. At the time, a nearly $50,000 reward was offered for information on her whereabouts.

Ben stressed Thursday that the case is still considered an open and active missing person investigation. Last year, though, police said foul play may have played a factor in her disappearance.

Coles was described as a 5-foot-4, 125-pound black woman with brown eyes, black hair and a medium brown complexion, police said. She has a tattoo of a heart on her right hand and one that reads “Lucky Libra” on her back.

Ben was asked if detectives have considered the possibility that Coles may not want to be found.

“Some people walk away, they do, but we’re not saying that this is in that case with Kierra,” Ben said. “At this point we want anybody that may have saw something, heard something, and if they know something, please call into the detective division.”

Area South detectives can be reached at (312) 747-8271.

The renewed spotlight on Coles’ disappearance came just days after the CPD also asked the public for information on two murders in Rogers Park that occurred a year ago.

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