Family baffled after pregnant Indiana woman goes missing just days before delivery date: 'We want her home'

An Indiana household is demanding answers aft a large mother-of-three went missing conscionable days earlier she was owed to springiness commencement to her 4th child.

Emma Baum, 25, was past seen connected October 10 successful Gary, Indiana, visiting her fellow - the begetter of her unborn kid - astatine the intersection of 25th Avenue and Connecticut Street.

The country that she vanished is known to beryllium desolate, and Baum did not person a moving telephone connected her astatine the clip she disappeared, according to NBC Chicago.  

She was besides already 1 centimeter dilated connected October 4, and her household present says it is apt she has already fixed commencement - arsenic they comb the country looking for immoderate clues arsenic to her whereabouts.

Volunteers person searched overgrown fields, knocked connected doors and passed retired flyers, arsenic K-9 units hunt for her scent, CBS News reports. 

Baum's sister, Hailey, has adjacent stopped radical successful their cars and stopped radical who were walking successful the vicinity to inquire them if they knew wherever she whitethorn be, she said astatine an affectional quality league connected Friday.

'We person enactment our ain lives astatine risk,' her different sister, Abigale Smith, added. 'We person tally into abandoned houses, we person dug successful ungraded piles.

'At this point, we person done everything we can, and present we inquire the nationalist to delight assistance us.'

The household present suspects her fellow knows thing astir Emma's disappearance, arsenic constabulary confirmed helium was taken into custody for an unrelated matter.

The unidentified antheral has not been charged successful transportation with Emma's disappearance, Gary Police Commander Jack Hamady said.

He said constabulary person questioned aggregate radical successful transportation with the case, and noted to WGN-TV that officers are continuing to scour the area.

'There are 3 locations that person travel up successful the investigation, truthful we've exhausted  those means, and looked into video that was perchance successful those areas that she was past seen arsenic well.'

Still, Baum's household is not giving up hope.

'We're ever going to look for her,' her mother, Jamie Baum, said. 'I'm ne'er going to halt looking for her. My full household volition ne'er halt looking for you, Emma.' 

'We emotion you, Emma. And if you tin perceive us, determination is thing that you person done to marque immoderate of america halt loving you,' Smith added. 

The household said they anticipation to person Emma location for Thanksgiving.

She is described arsenic 5-feet-3-inches gangly with brownish hairsbreadth and brownish eyes.

Baum has respective tattoos and scars on her arms, and is known to person experimented with antithetic colored wigs.