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Dear Leah,
Trying to pin you down last year to try on the bridesmaid dress I bought you for your brother’s wedding caused me more than a few gray hairs. But in typical Leah style, you’d been working/staying in the desert and had your friends drive you to the bridal boutique in Beverly Hills at the last second. You sent me the photos of you in the dress and we laughed at what a sight you three must have been to the sales clerk.
Luckily we’re the same size as I fed-ex’d it to me to have it altered here and ready for you. The actual color the bride chose for the dresses was the color of your eyes- so beautiful.
It was such a happy, hopeful time until weeks before the wedding, you stopped calling daily. I was frantic but then after several days you contacted me and said you’d been mugged twice that week. You lost your phone in the first mugging and the second phone the day you’d gotten it. I begged you to explain what had changed as you’d never been mugged and have lived/worked in many big cities. Again, in Leah fashion, you played it down, promised you were living in a safe place with great friends who watch over you. For the first time in over two years, you refused to give me your address. Now I know why- you were in various shelters until you were placed in a transitional home until you got back on your feet financially - I fear your fierce pride may have cost you everything. gray bridesmaid dresses
Then you did not make the flight I booked for you for the wedding. Your beautiful dress was waiting and you weren’t there. Soon after you texted your reason for not going, which I’ve shared w your brother & LAPD as it’s your voice & heartbreaking.
After you disappeared and I received all your belongings, I got to show your ‘little’ brother your journaling of your excitement in your ‘wedding countdown’ to-do list. And the card you bought for him & his sweet bride sits unsigned.
Anyone who didn’t believe your stories of being mugged, have now seen the horrible proof in police reports & various physical assaults you never mentioned. One of the saddest writings you left behind, is a doodle of a broken heart on the date of the wedding and three days after you wrote that you’d been mugged again.
I can’t fathom what you were going through.
A year ago was filled with hope & happiness and then something happened. I will never stop searching for you nor will the thousands of pure hearts who’ve fallen in love with the light that is Leah Rose.
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Please ask all your contacts to join this page, share her posters anywhere possible. They have produced leads for law enforcement to investigate. We just need THE one- someone knows where Leah is. I beg you to call the anonymous tip lines on her posters if you don’t wish to call LAPD directly. Leah gave such unconditional love to all who knew her- today she needs just one act of truth/courage to locate her.
With deepest gratitude, Lynda
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Leah, I love you more, Mom xoxo