Nailah Franklin is missing
Update: 10-30-07: Reginald Potts speaks out in Nailah Franklin Case
Update, 9-28-07: Sad news -- Police confirm the body found in Calumet City is
Nailah Franklin.
Update: Nailah Franklin's family has set up a website:
bringnailahfranklinhome.com. Also, a
$10,000 reward is being offered.
Missing Eli Lilly pharmaceutical representative Nailah Franklin's car was found near an abandoned building in Hammond, Indiana at the intersection of Kenwood Street and Blaine Avenue, reports the
Northwest Indiana Times.
Nailah Franklin's car was found Friday evening and police have been searching nearby areas since then.
The 28-year-old Nailah Franklin was reported missing after she failed to show up for a meeting with her bosses at Eli Lilly, reports
Fox News.
Nailah Franklin" When Franklin didn't turn up for an important meeting Wednesday morning with her boss at Eli Lilly and Co., where she's a pharmaceutical sales representative, co-workers called family, and family called police. Eli Lilly is based in Indianapolis. Franklin's sales territory covered Chicago's suburbs, her sister said. "
Police searched the River Oaks Golf Course in Calumet City, Illinois this morning after finding Nailah Franklin's car in Hammond because it was within a search perimeter set up by police.
Nailah Franklin(click to enlarge flyer)Several local police departments are involved in the search, including the Hammond Police, Chicago Police, and the Cook County Sheriff's Department. (
Link to the Chicago Police's missing person report for Nailah Franklin).
Fox News reports that Nailah Franklin had contacted the police about threatening phone calls before she disappeared.
Reports
ABC 7 Chicago:
Franklin, missing since Tuesday, lives in the University Village neighborhood, in the 1500 block of S. Sangamon. She had reported threats to police before she disappeared.
The family has set up a command center at a gymnasium at 700 W. Maxwell, as a headquarters for flyer distribution. Police held a press conference Friday afternoon to update the media on new information.
CrimeBlog.us has been covering Nailah Franklin's story:
Dana McClellan, a good friend of Nailah’s, also spoke to the ABC affiliate — “It defies explanation. That sounds dramatic, but she’s not the type of person who just leaves.”
McClellan heard at least one of the threats left for her friend. CBS 2 in Chicago reported her statement about that chilling message: “Basically [the message said] ‘I could do harm to you. You haven’t seen that side, of me but I do have a bad side and I could do harm to you’.”
Lehia Adcox also spoke to CBS 2. She said, “This is someone who just had everything to live for; she was at the top of her game professionally; she bought two condos on her own as a single woman; she dotes on her niece, my daughter; she’s just a person who is very connected with the people she cares about [. . .] This is so out of character.”
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Nailah Franklin, foreground,
