Nearly eight years after pregnant postal worker Kierra Coles went missing in Chicago, the US Postal Inspection Service is boosting the incentive for information leading to an arrest and conviction in her disappearance.
The $250,000 reward announced on Tuesday is the greatest ever by the US Postal Inspection Service, which initially promised a $25,000 reward in Coles’ case days after she vanished.
Coles was three months pregnant when she went missing on October 2, 2018. She was 26 at the time.
Coles was last seen between 81st and Vernon in the Chatham neighborhood, according to her family, who said that her car was found parked on her block with her cell phone and pocketbook inside.
She is a 5-foot-4, 125-pound Black woman with black hair, brown eyes, and a medium skin tone. Coles has a tattoo of a heart on her right hand and the words “Lucky Libra” on her back.
Her family is offering a $63,000 reward for information that will help them find her.
In 2022, Chicago police revealed security footage of Coles, which showed her withdrawing cash from an ATM inside a Walgreens store in Chatham. It is the final known image of Coles before she disappeared.
Minutes earlier, CCTV showed Coles driving away from her apartment with a man who authorities are calling a person of interest.
The same man came to Coles’ apartment the next day, leaving her car sitting outside.
Police said the person of interest seen with Coles in the recordings was questioned and provided conflicting stories of what happened that nite, but no arrests have been made in the case.
Anyone with information on Coles’ disappearance is asked to contact the United States Postal Inspection Service at 877-876-2455 (say “Law Enforcement”) and reference Case No. 2693502-WPV.
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