April Jean Bailey, left, with her son Isiah Bugg.
April Jean Bailey was not dressed for a long winter’s night.
Wearing only her slippers, black sweatpants and a jacket with a fur-lined hood, the 37-year-old mother of three stepped outside of her basement apartment in Nashua, N.H., to take out the trash on the evening of Jan. 15, 2020 — and disappeared.
Police say she was not living with her children at the time, and her cell phone, purse and other personal effects were left behind.
The vanishing has left Bailey’s family desperate for answers and hopeful for any clues.
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“She had such a good heart, and her children are her world,” Bailey’s twin sister Nicole tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story devoted to the unexplained cases of eight missing moms across the country.
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“Our family always sticks together, and without her, there is a big piece of the family gone,” says Nicole. “We are lost. We keep hoping, we keep praying we’ll find her alive.”
“All accounts that we’ve gotten is that she was just heading out to take some trash outside,” says Hannon. “It wasn’t like she was dressed, ready to go [with] purse in her hand, cell phone, things like that. Those items were left behind.”
April Jean Bailey.
In a post onhis Facebook page, Bailey’s son Isiah Bugg wrote: “I won’t give up on you ma!”
Anyone with information on her case is asked to contact Nashua police at (603) 589-1663, or the Boston office of the FBI at 857-386-2000 or tips online at tips.fbi.gov.
source: people.com
