Overview
- On Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced a $250,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction, and Coles’ family is separately offering $63,000.
- Kierra Coles, then 26 and about three months pregnant, vanished from Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on Oct. 2, 2018; her car was later found on the block with her phone and purse inside.
- Police-released surveillance video shows Coles withdrawing cash at a Walgreens ATM and earlier leaving her apartment with an unidentified man who is now described as a person of interest.
- That person returned to Coles’ apartment the following day and was questioned by police, who say he gave varying accounts, but no suspects have been named and no arrests have been made.
- Coles’ family and postal unions have kept public pressure on investigators and officials urge anyone with tips to call the U.S. Postal Inspection Service at 877-876-2455 and reference case No. 2693502-WPV.