Families Draw Attention to Three Missing Women: Kierra Coles, Diamond Bynum and Stacy Peterson, Chicago Area

CHICAGO (WLS) – Families of three missing Chicago women in different circumstances have recently come together to draw attention to their stories.

The father of Kierra Coles, a postal worker who disappeared last October, urged anyone with information about cases of missing persons in the area to come forward.

Coles was last seen on a surveillance video leaving his home at 81st and Vernon in the Chatham neighborhood. She was pregnant at that time and had to come in April.

The police had previously said they suspected a criminal act in the disappearance of Coles.

Joseph Coles said that the police had no other track in his daughter's searches, but that he was refusing to give up.

"I think my daughter is still alive," Joseph Coles told Daley Plaza on Monday.

There is a $ 46,000 reward for information that will lead to its location. Anyone with information about Coles is asked to call the South Zone Victims Special Unit at (312) 747-8274 or the United States Postal Inspection Service at (877) 876-2455.

LaShann Walker will not give up either. Her intellectually handicapped daughter Diamond Bynum disappeared from her home in Gary, Indiana, with her 2-year-old nephew King Walker almost four years ago.

At the time, it was thought that Bynum had gone astray and had lost it.

"My world has just been upset," said Walker LaShann. "Sometimes I feel like I'm alone."

The sister-in-law of Stacy Peterson, a Bolingbrook mother who disappeared almost 12 years ago, also spoke on Monday.

Peterson was 23 when she disappeared in 2007. Her husband, a former police sergeant in Bolingbrook. Drew Peterson, was a suspect, but he was never charged. He is serving his sentence for the murder of his former wife, Kathleen Savio, and a murder plot on behalf of the Attorney, James Glasgow, Will County State Attorney.

Stacy Peterson's family still wants to find her mortal remains.

Her sister-in-law, Norma Peterson, has since become a supporter of domestic violence. It helps promote what is called an affidavit on the abuse of evidence, created as a result of Peterson's disappearance.

"It allows victims to document their abuse, so that people know what was happening in their day," said Norma Peterson.