IN EMMA BAUM: Missing from Gary, IN - 10 Oct 2024 - Age 25

Pregnant Gary woman disappears near location of teen’s earlier missing case: police​

Police are searching for a teenage girl and a 25-year-old pregnant woman who both disappeared from Gary, Indiana in recent months.

Emma Baum, 25, was nine months pregnant when she was last seen on Oct. 10 in the 2500 block of Connecticut Street, according to Gary police. Since her disappearance, authorities say Baum may have given birth.


Her disappearance follows that of 13-year-old Ja'Niyah McMichael, who went missing on Aug. 11 within blocks of Baum’s last known location. Police say McMichael may also have been pregnant. She is described as 5-foot-2, weighing about 110 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

Gary police are urging anyone with information on Baum or McMichael’s whereabouts to contact authorities.

Police have not indicated whether the two cases are connected.

This is about a strange as it can get! What is going on?

Pregnant Gary woman missing over 1 month; family seeks answers​

The family of a missing pregnant woman from Gary is pleading for her safe return.

Emma Baum, 25, was last seen Oct. 10 near 25th Avenue and Connecticut Street in Gary.

She was nine months pregnant at the time; family believes she might have given birth since she's been missing.

She has several scars on her arms and multiple tattoos. She's known to wear wigs and hairpieces in various styles and colors.

Her family and friends held an emotional news conference Friday morning to help get the word out about her disappearance.

Her mother, Jamie Baum, said Emma was dropped off at her boyfriend's home before she disappeared.

They said he's currently in jail on unrelated charges.

Emma Baum has three other children, her family said.

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This is about a strange as it can get! What is going on?

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I think it's just a sad coincidence.
With the additional info from today, it sounds like there's a solid POI in Emma's disappearance.

Pregnant woman missing more than a month in Indiana. What to know about her disappearance​

Gary police told NBC Chicago they received a missing persons report on Oct. 28, well over two weeks after Baum was last seen.

Police have searched three areas and conducted several interviews, though no arrests have been made.

"One individual was picked up on a warrant," Gary Police commander Jack Hamady said. The individual, Baum's boyfriend, is currently in custody on a separate matter and has not been charged in connection to Baum's disappearance.

Baum's family suspects he may know something regarding her whereabouts.

"We have put our own lives at risk. We have ran into abandoned houses, we have dug in dirt piles," Smith said.

Baum's family is pushing for more resources to be deployed in the search effort.

According to Hamady, there are license plate reading cameras and gunshot detection technology, but no police observation device cameras, or POD cameras, in the area Baum was last seen in.

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Pregnant Gary woman missing over 1 month; family seeks answers

The family of a missing pregnant woman from Gary is pleading for her safe return.

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Pregnant Gary woman missing over 1 month; family seeks answers​

The family of a missing pregnant woman from Gary is pleading for her safe return.

Emma Baum, 25, was last seen Oct. 10 near 25th Avenue and Connecticut Street in Gary.

She was nine months pregnant at the time; family believes she might have given birth since she's been missing.

She has several scars on her arms and multiple tattoos. She's known to wear wigs and hairpieces in various styles and colors.

Her family and friends held an emotional news conference Friday morning to help get the word out about her disappearance.

Her mother, Jamie Baum, said Emma was dropped off at her boyfriend's home before she disappeared.

They said he's currently in jail on unrelated charges.

Emma Baum has three other children, her family said.

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He may have harmed her and she was nine months pregnant? No words.

Family pleads for help finding pregnant Indiana woman who vanished in October​

“We are looking for my sister. She was one centimeter dilated on October 4. She has been missing since October 10,” Baum’s sister, Abigale Smith, said Friday. “At this point we have done everything we can, and now we ask the public to please help us.”

Relatives said Baum lived in Portage, Ind., but was visiting her boyfriend in Gary on the 2500 block of Connecticut Street when she was last seen. Her mother said she believes the boyfriend had something to do with the disappearance.

“I would like my daughter home. We miss her. Her babies need her. Her family needs her,” the mother, Jamie Baum, said.


Gary police Commander Jack Hamady said the boyfriend is in custody but is being held in connection with an unrelated case.

“One individual was picked up on a warrant,” Hamady said. “I know that’s the question out there: was he charged? He has not been charged. No one in this case has been charged, and that individual was just on a separate [Fail to Appear] warrant.”

Gary investigators said they received a missing persons report for Baum on October 28. Since then, they say officers and K9s have helped in the search.

“There are three locations that have come up in the investigation, so we’ve exhausted those means and looked into video that was possibly in those areas that she was last seen as well,” Hamady said.