Found Deceased IL - Elise Malary, 31, LGBTQ Transgender Activist, Evanston, 9 March 2022

[imstilla.grandma]

Elise Malary, 31, was last heard from around 9 a.m. Wednesday, her sister Fabiana Malary said. Malary lives in Evanston and has been an active LGBTQ advocate on the Far North Side and throughout the city.

The two sisters had been texting about Fabiana Malary’s mortgage payment because Elise Malary offered to help pay it this month, Fabiana Malary said. But by 9 p.m., Elise Malary stopped replying to her texts and calls to her phone started going straight to voicemail, Fabiana Malary said.

“Usually Elise is very organized and sends me receipts when she pays everything,” Fabiana Malary said. “I started to get worried because she didn’t do that, and when her phone started going straight to voicemail, I got really worried.”

Fabiana Malary waited two days to see if her sister would get back to her and filed missing person’s report with Evanston Police on Friday, Fabiana Malary said.

Evanston police officials said the investigation is ongoing, but the department was not prepared to release details on the case. Her family and friends said they wanted to spread the word now about Elise Malary.

“I still hadn’t heard anything from her and I was freaking out,” Fabiana Malary said. “I’m worried and started to feel like something is wrong because this is not like Elise. This is not her normal behavior.”

Elise Malary is about 6 feet tall and weighs about 145 pounds, her sister said.

Detectives told Fabiana Malary they visited Elise Malary’s apartment in Evanston and found both front and back doors were unlocked, Fabiana Malary said. Police told Fabiana Malary her sister had sent an email to her boss the day she went missing to quit her job in the Civil Rights Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s office, she said.

“That was a rather shocking thing for me, because she loves her job so much,” Fabiana Malary said. I”m very confused with what’s been going on and I’m still trying to put the pieces together to figure out where my sister is.”
Family Of Missing Transgender Activist Elise Malary Asks Public For Help In Search

 

[steff13]

I wonder what the state of her apartment was. Leaving the doors unlocked and quitting her job makes me feel like she might have left on purpose. That way someone could get into the apartment without a key, and her employer could start looking for a replacement. If things are missing from the apartment it might indicate that she left on her own.

 

[borndem]

Scary. Her poor family, not knowing what to think, I'm sure.
Was she forced to email her boss? Does she normally leave her F/B doors unlocked? Any sign of a struggle? Could her relatives tell whether she packed any clothes?
Not liking this one bit. I'm hoping there is no hate crime involved here.
Really hoping LE is doing whatever they can. Since she is not a minor, would LE handle a situation like this differently?
A prayer for her and for those who love her.

About Evanston:
Evanston is a suburb of Chicago (20 miles), situated on the shore along Lake Michigan, a home to Northwestern University, and it has a population of about 78,000.

 

[realanastasia]

Here's her professional profile: Elise Malary « Equality Illinois

Here's Elise's Facebook: Log in or sign up to view

 

[GraceG]

Scary. Her poor family, not knowing what to think, I'm sure.
Was she forced to email her boss? Does she normally leave her F/B doors unlocked? Any sign of a struggle? Could her relatives tell whether she packed any clothes?
Not liking this one bit. I'm hoping there is no hate crime involved here.
Really hoping LE is doing whatever they can. Since she is not a minor, would LE handle a situation like this differently?
A prayer for her and for those who love her.

About Evanston:
Evanston is a suburb of Chicago (20 miles), situated on the shore along Lake Michigan, a home to Northwestern University, and it has a population of about 78,000.

Evanston is a pretty nice area. I have a good friend that lives there, not the cheapest place to live but close to the lake with good transportation to other parts of the city and pretty safe for a big city area. In reading the article in the links her sister stated she had been expecting Alise to help pay her mortgage and from the language she used it sounds like she had paid her bills for her in the past. I'm hoping Alise was just overwhelmed with work and personal responsibilities at the moment and just got away for her own well-being. She doesn't seem like the kind of person that would do that, in my opinion, but it's better than foul play of some kind. Here's the latest update from the local news. Transgender activist Elise Malary missing, last seen in Evanston | WGN-TV

 

[marcyjoy]

Car was found: Car found, but Evanston activist Elise Malary remains missing

 

[steff13]

So nothing was "really out of the ordinary" at the apartment, but I still wonder if she packed some things and left. She lives alone, so her family may not be aware of clothes/bags/toiletries that might be missing. Also, the front and back door being unlocked is a weird detail. If someone took her, why would both doors be unlocked? I wonder if she has a little fenced backyard or patio at her apartment? If so, she might have left the back door unlocked when she was home.

I'd like to see a map of where the parking lot is. Is it near a bus station or a train? It's a municipal lot, so one would assume there's cctv there.

 

[bykerladi]

Perhaps SHE didn't write the email. Its always possible she was abducted and whoever took her used her laptop or computer or phone and wrote the email. Most government jobs have resignation procedures, and you can't just "send an email" quitting your job. Doesn't work that way. All kinds of security features and regulations when you're a government employee. Her LBGTQ activity makes me suspicious someone targeted her.

 

[hey-Debbie]

Maybe someone she knows or helped out in the past came by her home and asked for a lift somewhere. I just don't see her leaving her house unlocked if that was the case. Someone with this kind of degree doesn't fall off the face of the planet. "Elise graduated in December 2016 from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in Communication. Her main concentrations were nonprofit digital communication, research, and social media marketing. She joined Equality Illinois in December 2016 and is excited to be a part of the Equality Illinois team and effectively executing her role in ensuring a better Illinois for the LGBTQ community." I'm sure she's very savey on who she shares her personal profiles with but with this job she probably comes into contact with people that might feel closer to her than she is to them. I also wonder if she was the kind of person that hid a key to her house somewhere but others knew where she hid it.

Elise Malary « Equality Illinois

 

[steff13]

Perhaps SHE didn't write the email. Its always possible she was abducted and whoever took her used her laptop or computer or phone and wrote the email. Most government jobs have resignation procedures, and you can't just "send an email" quitting your job. Doesn't work that way. All kinds of security features and regulations when you're a government employee. Her LBGTQ activity makes me suspicious someone targeted her.

I am a government employee. If I wanted to quit, I could just email them and then leave. They can't make me adhere to their procedures, particularly if they can't find me.

 

[borndem]

The unlocked doors... Maybe that was her habit... Somehow I don't think so. JMO.
Perhaps something happened at her job and she just had to get away -- not likely, IMO.
I agree that the quitting her job email may well not have been written by Elise.
Maybe one of her therapy patients (not sure of the correct word) called and needed her help and she left in a hurry to help, and either the patient harmed her or someone jumped in her car at a stop light (unlocked car doors) and harmed her. This, of course, is assuming she is a victim.
One of our "holding our collective breaths" situations. SMH.

 

[steff13]

Her sister said in the video that it was unlike her to leave her doors unlocked. I agree someone might have written the email, but that fact that she didn't follow the proper procedure isn't evidence of that, in my opinion.

 

[JayLee#99]

I wonder if she had any known mental health issues?

 

[GraceG]

The car was located in a parking lot at Hinman and South in Evanston Car found in Evanston amid search for missing woman and trans advocate Elise Malary This is near a Metra station. (It's not official parking for the train it's just a short walk away - looking at the google map photo there is an RV left there and a U-Haul so it might be neighborhood overflow parking.) Likely no cameras there. Google Maps

 

[steff13]

So, whoever left the car there may have walked to a train? Hmm, I am still thinking it might be a voluntary disappearance.

 

[Dre]

giving money away, quitting job, doors unlocked... very worried about her emotional state

 

[bykerladi]

Her sister said in the video that it was unlike her to leave her doors unlocked. I agree someone might have written the email, but that fact that she didn't follow the proper procedure isn't evidence of that, in my opinion.

Except Elise seemed proud of her work. Most people who love their job don't just email and walk away. Especially when she was an active activist. Just doesn't seem to suit what her family is saying about her.

 

[steff13]

People have mental breaks.

 

[GraceG]

A body has been found in the water not far from where Elise lives. Identification is still pending but some conjecture on the news that it is Elise. Praying for her family. Woman's Body Found In Lake Michigan In Evanston

 

[GraceG]

Here is a Google map of the park where the young woman's body was found. It's a very short distance from where Elise's car was found parked if you look at the previous Google map linked earlier in the thread. Google Maps