Thank you for the summary and comments. Great post!
I agree with everything you said.
After two and a half months, I wonder if Karen still feels the same way about Kierra’s boyfriend/her baby’s father’s possible involvement in her disappearance.
I do get the impression that Kierra’s sister, Keshia, was a little more suspicious of him than Karen even back then:
“Her sister, Keshia Phillips, who was also in the studio said, ‘We’re not singling anybody out. We know he is going to be a suspect, but as far as people putting his mother, his kids — all that stuff up there — that’s just not right. We’re not asking nobody to do that, that’s not the type of help that we’re looking for.’”
As to 7., I watched the video again and still can’t tell whether the woman is wearing a coat. One thing I’ve always wondered about is what appears to be a dark-colored bag she is carrying over her right shoulder. It may also be a small backpack. In the video, she appears to either take it off her shoulder or her back, if a backpack. But I thought Kierra’s purse was found inside her car.
Video Shows Missing Postal Worker Before Her Disappearance
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Also, as the bag comes off, you can see there is some sort of design across the back of the top the woman is wearing. Could it be a reflective trim on the back of a USPS jacket like this one?
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Or perhaps as Karen said, Kierra did not wear a coat that morning, and none of her family or friends recognizes the top/coat the woman is wearing, in which case it likely isn’t Kierra in the video.
As far as the woman suddenly turning around, if it wasn’t Kierra, maybe she wasn’t familiar with the area and just realized she’d gone the wrong way.
ETA: I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the woman in the video really isn’t Kierra, and Karen already knew that at the time of the interview. IIRC, it was not LE who released the video, and they have never spoken about its veracity. In the meantime:
“Julie Kenney, a public information representative at the United States Postal Inspection Service, which is investigating the case alongside the Chicago Police Department, told Oxygen.com the postal service doesn't believe the woman was Coles.
‘There's other postal employees that live on that block, so the postal inspection service does not believe that is Kierra Coles on that video,’ she said.”
Mysterious Disappearance Of Pregnant Postal Worker Lingers, With Few Clues For Family And Investigators