IL IL - Nyameka Amanda Bell, 33, Evanston, February 2016

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Evanston police detectives have spoken with acquaintances of Bell, who reportedly have not heard from or seen her since February 2016. Police said Bell is originally from South Africa, and that her relatives there said they hadn't heard from her since around February 2016, either.

After checking with Bell's last known employer, detectives learned she never picked up her last paycheck, according to the statement. Detectives also have checked credit card, banking and cellphone records, as well as vehicle and travel information, and have been unsuccessful finding leads to help locate Bell.

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Now this one is disturbing. She went missing for about 5 months before he reports her missing.
Evanston PD are either keeping this TOO close to the vest or they somehow don't think the husband was involved.
She simply disappeared. Credit Cards, Phone, Job, Paycheck, Vehicle tags, Everything expired, nothing used, nothing taken.
She just vanished. In Evanston where crime really is low especially for someone like this victim.
She is not reported in NAMUS. No further reports about her disappearance.
Am I missing something here?

Semantics: Was she 'reported missing by her husband' OR reported missing in September according to her husband?

Because I suspect it's the latter. But I'm just a naturally suspicious person (and WS doesn't help )

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Nyameka did not return home on 11/27/2015 after a scheduled work assignment. Nyameka is originally from South Africa and her family still resides in South Africa. Authorities have reached out to several agencies (local and federal) who have been unable to locate her or her vehicle. Her credit cards were used going from Illinois to Chattanooga and her savings account was tampered with along a Texas highway but only used at gas stations. The accounts have been closed by the bank.

Police: Evanston woman missing since February

Police: Evanston woman missing since February

Stymied in their search for a 33-year-old woman who has been missing for almost a year, Evanston police are asking for the public's help as they continue an investigation that has reached as far as South Africa, authorities said Thursday.

According to a Thursday police statement, the husband of Nyameka Amanda Bell said Bell left their residence in November 2015 and that he has not seen or heard from her since. Although Bell was last seen by her husband almost a year ago, he did not report her missing until last month, authorities said. Police said that in this particular case, the 11 months between Bell's disappearance and her husband filing a police report was not necessarily unusual. They also said Bell's husband is cooperating with authorities.

"He said it was not uncommon for her to go away for extended periods of time," Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said Thursday. "He started reaching out to her family in South Africa. After speaking to them and they said they had not heard from her ... he decided to report her missing."


After checking with Bell's last known employer, detectives learned she never picked up her last paycheck, according to the statement. Detectives also have checked credit card, banking and cellphone records, as well as vehicle and travel information, and have been unsuccessful finding leads to help locate Bell.

Bell is described as a black woman who is 5 feet tall and 150 pounds.

"It's a missing person investigation," said Dugan. "Any time somebody leaves for an extended period of time and through all our investigative means, checking different databases, checking records as much as we can, and we can't find anything, it is of course suspicious to us."

Bell is also known by the names Nyameka Malindi and Amanda Malindi, according to the statement. Bell's vehicle, a 2003 gray Volkswagen Jetta, with expired Illinois registration V609349, is also unaccounted for, authorities said.

"Generally you find they got a traffic ticket or their license plate has been run somewhere or they got a parking ticket," Dugan said. "We find something. They got a plane ticket or something. We're still waiting for some records to come back because we have to subpoena them. So far at this point, we don't have anything."

He said Evanston police are working with Cook County and neighboring police agencies in their investigation and said that at this point there is not a "person of interest" or suspect in Bell's disappearance.

"We always ask people 'what do you think happened?'" Dugan said. "But right now our main concern is just to locate her and we're asking anybody that has any information on her to contact the police department."

"We're just hoping something will turn up and it will be a happy ending," he added.

Anyone with information about Bell's whereabouts is asked to contact the Evanston Police Department at 847-866-5000 and ask for the detective bureau, or use Text-A-Tip at CRIMES (274637) and entering EPDTIP in the message line with the tip information.

Adding her to a map of missing people with their vehicles but not sure how helpful it will be in this case :/