GUILTY IL - Nailah Franklin, 28, Chicago, 19 September 2007

[chicoliving]

I'm so sorry scooby that your friend is missing. Prayers, prayers and more prayers for all of you that are missing Nailah.

 

[BethInAK]

scooby,
I'm so sorry about nahlia! Sending positive thoughts.

Question: Have the police been able to question the threatening ex-boyfriend?

 

[concernedperson]

It's now hit the national media:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/24/missing.woman.ap/index.html

Police stepped up their search for a missing drug sales representative after finding the 28-year-old woman's car near an abandoned building in Hammond, Indiana.

Nailah Franklin was last heard from Tuesday, when she sent an uncharacteristically vague text message to friends and family saying that she was having dinner and that she'd call later.

She never did.

Days earlier, Franklin had filed a police report saying she had been getting threatening phone calls.

much more at link

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Does anyone know what kind of drugs she was representing for Eli Lilly? Typically they have samples that they leave at doctor's offices. Maybe this wasn't a ex-boyfriend at all but someone who needed or wanted the drugs. Or thought she had something more potent than she did?

 

[Ang50]

FYI - the current boyfriend resides in Milwaukee and there's every reason to believe he is truly NOT a suspect.

Have any reports said they have located the ex?

 

[Masterj]

Not to be a pest, but I am friends with one of Nailah's friends in Chicago. The guy who left her the harassing message was someone she had gone on about three dates with. He was not ever her boyfriend and it is very difficult for her family and friends to constantly read him being referred to as her ex-boyfriend.

 

[chicoliving]

Cops tap FBI resources, seek info on date who made threatening calls

High-tech equipment from federal authorities will be brought in to assist police in the investigation into a missing Chicago businesswoman, officials said Monday.

Nailah Franklin, 28, was reported missing Sept. 19. Since then a pond in Calumet City has been searched and her car was recovered in Hammond.

Now Chicago Police are using FBI resources and equipment to further the search.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/572702,CST-NWS-missing25.article

 

[chicoliving]

As the search continues for a Chicago woman who disappeared one week ago Tuesday, her family is offering a reward and building a Web site to help bring her home.

Nailah Franklin, a 28-year-old pharmaceuticals sales rep, disappeared last Tuesday.

The family did a string of national TV interviews Tuesday, as well as offered a reward for Franklin's safe return. They have also started a Web site at bringnailahfranklinhome.com

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5673869

 

[SewingDeb]

Church holds prayer vigil for missing woman

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5672006

 

[SewingDeb]

Scooby,

Prayers for you and all of Nailah's friends and family. May answers come soon.

 

[Ang50]

Point taken - it's an easy way to refer to him. Perhaps we should use "The Creep"...

I hope they find her safe. There are so many people who care about her.

 

[chicoliving]

Dozens of police, some in fatigues, were combing a southwest suburban forest preserve for a Chicago woman who disappeared one week ago Tuesday. Meanwhile, her family held a vigil at a local church.

Nailah Franklin, a 28-year-old pharmaceuticals sales rep, disappeared last Tuesday. In Calumet City's Shabbona Forest Preserve, across 159th St. from a golf course where Franklin's belongings were found, was searched by police with the help of FBI technology Wednesday. Police did not disclose whether anything of importance was found.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5673869

 

[chicoliving]

Friends and family of Nailah Franklin have renewed optimism Wednesday night. They gathered to pray for her after search teams scoured a park in the southern suburbs.

As CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reports, it's the latest mass search conducted by authorities in their quest to find Franklin, who has been missing since last Tuesday.

Scores of Chicago police officers and FBI agents searched the forest preserves in Calumet City, near 159th Street and Torrence Avenue.

"I'm grateful that there are that many resources being brought to bear to find anything that can lead us to Nailah," said Franklin's sister, Lehia Franklin Acox.

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_269223604.html

 

[chicoliving]

Family Offers Reward Of $10,000

More than 100 searchers convened on River Oaks Golf Course to look for Nailah Franklin, 28, a Chicago woman who has been missing for one week.

Franklin was last heard from a week ago. Her car was found in Hammond with her possessions inside.

Investigators and searchers in camouflage on searched the golf course Wednesday in what police called a "revisited" search of "common sense areas."

http://www.nbc5.com/news/14214111/detail.html?dl=mainclick

 

[bnhall]

MSNBC is reporting that a body has been found behind a building.. They are not saying if it is Nailah yet.

 

[bnhall]

Updated info says it is an unclothed female body found in Calumet City by police or searchers looking specifically for Nailah.

 

[BrowneyedEmily]

What are the chances that she files a police report about a man harassing her, goes missing, possibly ends up dead, and that it's a completely unrelated person? My bets, if it's her, are on that guy.

But I more wish that it isn't her.

 

[scooby]

Prayers for the family of this woman found in Calumet City, be it Nailah's or not. I feel so sad because in my heart, I feel like it's her. I just hope that if she is no longer with us her family can have some closure and that they may be able to find the person who did this.

 

[concernedperson]

Here is an article from FNC about the body found.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298249,00.html

 

[IndyLaw]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...ebsep28,1,5475424.story?coll=chi_breaking_500

Here's a link to the info from the Chicago Tribune. The body was found in the Wentworth Woods area near Calumet City. This is essentially the same area where the golf course was searched.

 

[Mysticchic]

WFLD has confirmed that the body was found was Nailah.