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It's about 12:00 pm on the day of May 7th 2017,
when the friends and family
of 22-year-old single mother Akia Eggleston,
gather at a venue in Baltimore City
to celebrate the upcoming arrival of her second child.
By that point Akia was eight months pregnant,
and beyond excited to be welcoming her first son
into the world, given that her firstborn was a little girl.
This event was going to be perfect.
Akia paid for the venue out of her own pocket
and even bought a new dress just for the occasion.
Her loved ones knew just how much this meant to her,
which made it beyond strange
when Akia didn't show up to her own baby shower.
The event was scheduled between 12:00 and 4:00 pm
but Akia never made it.
Well, Akia's friends and family didn't immediately panic,
they knew that they had to track her down
as soon as possible, and that was
because Akia's pregnancy was considered high risk.
In fact, she was ordered bedrest by her doctor
and as a result, had limited mobility and couldn't work.
They quickly headed over to her apartment
in the Cherry Hill, neighborhood of Baltimore,
a unit she shared with another single mother,
and what they found there
most likely made their hearts sink.
Akia's apartment was gutted, almost everything was gone
aside from a random assortment of empty furnishings,
that no longer held Akia's belongings.
Out back was a dumpster
where some of the missing furniture had gone,
which to most would indicate a move, but the thing is,
no one in Akia's family knew that she was planning on moving
and couldn't fathom why she wouldn't tell them.
As this all began to unfold,
Akia's family realized that the last time
she actually spoke with any of them was May 3rd,
four days prior to her baby shower.
According to them,
Akia had a great relationship with her family
and above all, was a loving mother to her daughter
and would never just leave her behind like this.
Something was wrong, they were sure of it.
And a few things about the state
of Akia's apartment seem to support that theory.
For one, there was an unexplained hole in the wall
and whether or not it was caused
by some sort of struggle is still unknown,
but what was the most odd,
is the furniture mentioned a second ago.
While Akia's bed was left in place, her dresser was gone.
Keep in mind that she was eight months
into a high risk pregnancy
and barely had enough strength to move around,
so how did she move heavy furniture on her own?
Her roommate didn't help her do it, so who did?
Now, you're probably wondering
the obvious question right now,
what about the father of Akia's unborn child?
Why not just ask him?
The thing is, that's actually a bit complicated.
Akia never told her family who the father was
but once they did find out his identity,
things got uncomfortable.
Akia stepfather Shawn, has served as the face
of the Eggleston family for the past three plus years
that Akia has been missing.
And according to him, he later found out
that the father of Akia's child,
was actually one of his childhood friends,
a man named Andre Robinson.
Now as if that wasn't awkward enough,
for whatever reason, Robinson was highly uninterested
in talking with Shawn after Akia's disappearance.
In fact, he seemed almost unfazed by the whole situation
and didn't even bother to show up to help search for Akia,
who keep in mind was carrying his child,
his son was missing too.
Naturally, this guy was considered suspicious
and would be one of the first people interviewed by police.
And right now, we don't know anything
about those interviews,
but whatever was said there must have been convincing,
because Robinson has never been arrested
or even considered a suspect in this case.
This despite the fact that text messages would later reveal
that Akia did in fact, have plans to move in with him.
In a 2019 interview with Oxygen,
a friend of Akia shows message between them,
dating back to May 3rd of 2017 at 3:29 pm.
In them, Akia states that she was planning
to move in with a father of her unborn child
and that she had just received the keys
to her new house that day.
May 10, according to her was moving day.
Akia also adds that she'd been secretly living
with Robinson for quite some time,
but that she kept it a secret,
saying that she didn't need anyone in her business.
She ends with, "If he decides to leave,
I still get the house," which sounds like it implies
somewhat of a shaky relationship.
So Akia's family turned out to be wrong,
she was planning on moving
and for whatever reason didn't want them to know.
This also seemed backed up
by the fact that police uncovered CCTV footage
of Akia at a bank, records of which show
that she withdrew over $500 in cash.
But here's the thing,
if Akia was just going to move in with Robinson,
then where did she go?
She isn't with him now
and their son hasn't turned up either.
One might assume that maybe she just decided
to leave everything behind, her baby's father,
her family, her own daughter, but even if that was the case,
then someone in somewhere
should have at least spotted her by now.
As I mentioned earlier, Akia had a complicated pregnancy
and was already eight months pregnant.
She only had a couple more weeks to go
and even had a C-section scheduled
since it was the only way she could safely deliver her son.
She missed that appointment, and despite alerts being sent
to other hospitals in the area, none spotted Akia
or anyone fitting her specific description.
On top of all this, Akia was an avid user of social media
and all of her activity completely ran cold.
By all accounts, it was like she vanished into thin air.
Based on what you've heard so far,
I'm sure that opinions could go either way.
Well, on the one hand, there are a lot
of seemingly suspicious elements to the story,
on the other, it's possible
that maybe Akia really did just want to move on.
But here's one bit of information
that throws a massive wrench in that theory.
Approximately six months after Akia's disappearance,
her family decided to hold
a candlelight vigil outside of her old apartment,
and that's when they came across her debit card.
500 bucks wasn't going to be enough to start a new life,
especially with a child,
but Akia didn't even have her card on her.
Now, how it managed to go unnoticed
for so long is another mystery.
No one not the police or Akia's family
noticed the card before, so could it really have just
been sitting there the entire time?
If Akia really did leave, why not bring the card with her?
You could say that maybe it was to avoid being trapped,
but if so, why was she so desperate to disappear?
Before we wrap things up,
I do wanna mention a bit of conflicting information.
The last known as CCTV footage of Akia
was her at the bank making the $500 withdrawal,
but police claimed that,
that actually wasn't her only stop of the day,
they claimed that Akia had stopped at several establishments
to either cash in cheques or withdraw money from ATMs,
but for whatever reason, Akia stepfather, Shawn,
insists that this is not true
and that Akia only made the one stop.
In fact, according to him
the police have to issue a correction.
Now why both sides think what they do is unclear,
but one would assume that the cops would have footage
to prove that Akia was in more than one location.
At the same time Shawn seems dead set
that this never happened.
Akia's phone was traced and pinned back
to the same neighborhood as the bank in the CCTV footage,
but it's unclear if the phone was ever actually recovered.
Regardless, this only adds to the mystery
and at this point investigators have hit a brick wall.
Over 100 people have been interviewed
in relation to this case,
but no formal suspects have been named.
Searches have occurred both on land
and in surrounding waters, but nobody has ever surfaced,
not of Akia or her son.
In situations like this, we're more likely to conclude
that Akia left willingly but both local police and the FBI
are convinced that foul play is involved
and are asking for the public's help.
A reward of $25,000 currently stands
for anyone able to solve this case,
and if you have any information then you're instructed
to contact either the Baltimore PD or the FBI,
at the numbers you see here.
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