CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A forum on the near Southwest Side this afternoon was a chance for families to share their stories of missing loved ones and a declaration to the public that they haven't given up hope.
Shelia Bradley Smith, the great aunt of the missing Bradley sisters, showed a photo of Tionda at 10 years old. She is in her Easter dress and is smiling at the camera.
The Bradley girls have been missing since 2001.
Smith said she and other family members were following the case in Cincinnati, of the person who claimed he was Timmothy Pitzen, missing from Aurora since 2011.
Since October, Joseph Coles has been hoping for some word about his daughter Kierra, a 26-year-old postal worker last seen on Chicago's South Side.
He believes she is still alive — and being held against her will.
She is promoting an "evidentiary abuse affidavit," which is a way for abused women to document their abuse — information that can be used later if that woman ends up missing or dead.
"We really don't communicate very much," she said of Drew Peterson.