Family of missing pregnant mother reveal their dark suspicions about her vanishing as they fight eviction

The household of a large Indiana mother, who mysteriously vanished successful October, judge her fellow whitethorn beryllium concealing thing astir her disappearance. 

Emma Baum, 25, was nine-months large erstwhile she inexplicably vanished connected October 10 portion paying a sojourn to her boyfriend, Antwon Butler, 29, successful Gary, astir 10 miles from her location successful Portage.

The young mother-of-three did not person a moving telephone astatine the clip of her vanishing, and household members person said she was expected to spell with her fellow - the begetter of her unborn kid - 'to the telephone store and get it activated'.

Now, Baum's sister, Hailey Baum-Waddell, 23, suspects her older sister's fellow is 'hiding something,' she told Fox News Digital.

Baum's mother, Jamie Baum, besides believes the Butler - who has a lengthy transgression grounds - had thing to bash with her daughter's unusual disappearance, WGN9 reported.

Butler has not been enactment distant arsenic a fishy successful her disappearance, and Gary Police person yet to complaint anyone with the large mother's unexplainable vanishing.

'We person not charged anyone with the disappearance of Emma Baum, and she has not been located yet,' Gary Police Commander, Jack Hamady, said. 'We proceed to hunt and interrogation individuals that are oregon possibly associated with this case.'

Butler, who was taken into custody successful an unrelated lawsuit conscionable aft his large girlfriend's disappearance, was aboriginal released from Lake County Jail and awaits a tribunal day for the abstracted charges, Hamady said.

This isn't Butler's archetypal run-in with the law. 

In 2019, the 29-year-old had a artillery complaint dismissed. That aforesaid year, Butler pleaded blameworthy to a neglect of a babelike charge.

In 2024, helium pleaded blameworthy to a possession of a substance represented to beryllium a controlled substance charge. And successful 2025, helium pleaded blameworthy to a resisting instrumentality enforcement charge. 

The Gary-native has different pending cases - including dealing successful cocaine and marijuana - and his astir caller possessing of a controlled substance complaint - a felony - that helium was precocious arrested for. 

Now, respective months aft her dissappearance, Baum's parent is facing eviction arsenic she continues the futile hunt for her girl and unborn grandchild.

The worried-sick parent is presently providing regular attraction for her grandchildren and is 'facing important fiscal difficulties successful paying utilities and rent,' according to a GoFundMe campaign aimed to assistance supply enactment her.

'Jamie is struggling to marque ends meet. She has received a 10-day eviction missive from landlords requesting outgo of precocious fees, and backmost rent a full of $2000,' the leafage reads. 

'As a self-sufficient individual, Jamie is experiencing an immense accent and hardship portion trying to find her missing girl searching regular successful Gary, Indiana successful Northwest Indiana regions.'

A second fundraiser was created by Baum's sister. Between the two, a meager full of conscionable $80 has been raised to assistance the troubled family. 

Baum is astir 5 feet, 3 inches tall, weighs astir 136 pounds and has brownish hairsbreadth and brownish eyes. 

She has respective scars and tattoos, and she often wears colorful wigs.

'Emma gave everybody her all, gave them each the emotion that she could,' Baum-Waddell said of her sister. 

'She has these large brownish eyes, and she ever conscionable wanted to marque everybody, you know, laughter oregon consciousness bully astir themselves oregon person them consciousness included.

'It's precise hard due to the fact that present it's not conscionable her that's missing. It's her baby. And you don't privation to think, you know, the worst due to the fact that who would privation to, you know, wounded a miss and her baby?' she added. 'We're conscionable hoping to find her safe.' 

Authorities archetypal received a missing persons study for Baum from her household October 28, Hamady told the outlet.

The missing woman's household said it is apt Baum has already fixed commencement - arsenic she was 1 centimeter dilated connected October 4.

A wide hunt ensued for the missing parent arsenic volunteers searched done overgrown fields, knocked connected doors and passed retired flyer and K-9 units were deployed successful hunt for her scent, CBS News reported.

Baum-Waddell recalled stopping radical successful their cars and those who were walking successful the vicinity to inquire them if they knew wherever her older sister whitethorn be.

'We person enactment our ain lives astatine risk,' Baum's 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,' Smith added successful a quality league addressing her sister's chartless whereabouts.

Hamady said constabulary person questioned aggregate radical successful transportation with the case, and noted to WGN9 that officers proceed 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,' Baum's parent 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.