Family of missing pregnant woman reveals suspicions about disappearance

An Indiana pistillate was 9 months large erstwhile she disappeared implicit 3 months ago, and her household has suspicions astir her past whereabouts.

Mother of 3 Emma Baum, 25, went missing Oct. 10 successful Gary, Indiana, and she was astir to springiness commencement to her 4th child. 

Baum was past seen being dropped disconnected astatine her boyfriend's house, her sister Hailey Baum-Waddell told Fox News Digital. 

"Looking for Emma has been a precise struggling happening for everybody, mentally and physically and emotionally … but we're not going to halt looking for her," Baum-Waddell said. "I deliberation if radical support going connected and chanting that thing needs to beryllium done and chanting her sanction … conscionable get the connection retired due to the fact that a batch of radical know, but not everybody knows."

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Emma Baum, 25, disappeared Oct. 10. She was 9 months large erstwhile she was reported missing.  (Facebook/Missing People In America)

Authorities received a missing persons study for Baum from her household Oct. 28, Gary Police Cmdr. Jack Hamady told Fox News Digital. 

"A mates of days went by. … We each started, like, messaging each other, ‘Hey, person you heard from Emma? Anybody seen her? Can you connection 1 of her friends to get a clasp of her boyfriend?’ And it was benignant of conscionable a ringing astir with everybody and everyone's conscionable trying to fig it out," Baum-Waddell said.

"Then we're like, ‘OK, well, this is not normal.’ … That's erstwhile my ma truly started to panic," she added. "Then my ma ended up going to the constabulary station."

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Emma Baum was 9 months large erstwhile she disappeared successful October. (Hailey Baum-Waddell)

Officers with the Gary Police Department person utilized K-9s connected respective searches successful the area, and the Lake County Sheriff's Department has assisted successful a fewer of the searches, Hamady said.

"We person searched a house, apartment, recreational vehicles and 1 different property," helium added.

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In summation to the constabulary investigation, Baum-Waddell said she and different relatives of Baum person been organizing a wide hunt aft a societal media station of hers drew hundreds of consenting participants. 

"There's been a batch of radical who person offered to travel retired and look for her," she said. "We've talked it implicit with different hunt groups. I made a station online conscionable saying, you know, ‘Hands of however galore radical would beryllium consenting to travel out,’ and I posted it successful aggregate groups."

Baum lived successful Portage, Indiana, but was visiting her fellow successful Gary erstwhile she was past seen.

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Emma Baum's household said she was past seen being dropped disconnected astatine her boyfriend's location successful Gary, Ind. (Hailey Baum-Waddell)

Baum-Waddell said her sister didn't person a moving telephone erstwhile she disappeared and that though her sister whitethorn person "gone disconnected and done her ain thing" for respective days astatine a time, she would ne'er vanish for specified a agelong play of time.  

"That day, she was expected to spell with her fellow … to the telephone store and get it activated, and she ne'er got the telephone activated," she said. "She's been wholly soundless connected everything, and present that's not similar her."

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Baum-Waddell besides mentioned her sister's devotion arsenic a parent and the adjacent narration she has with her oldest son.

"They person a freaking crazy, unbreakable bond," she shared. "For her not to beryllium present to spot him connected Christmas oregon Thanksgiving oregon …  New Year's. It's unreal. There's nary mode she would bash that to him."

Emma Baum was astir to springiness commencement to her 4th kid erstwhile she disappeared. (Hailey Baum-Waddell)

Baum-Waddell believes her sister's fellow is "hiding something," she told Fox News Digital, and Baum's parent believes the fellow had thing to bash with her disappearance, WGN9 reported.

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

Baum's boyfriend, who was primitively successful custody successful an unrelated case, was released from Lake County Jail and is awaiting his tribunal day for the abstracted charges, Hamady added. 

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Emma Baum, who was 9 months large astatine the time, went missing successful October and has not been seen oregon heard from since. (Hailey Baum-Waddell)

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 emotionally said astir 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.

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"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."

Anyone with accusation connected Baum's disappearance is asked to interaction the Gary Police Department astatine (219) 881-1209.