Black Woman Falls In love With a Man From Craigslist....And Is NEVER SEEN AGAIN!

Black Woman Falls In love With a Man From Craigslist....And Is NEVER SEEN AGAIN!

rene Gakwa’s last WhatsApp video call with her parents was filled with gentle ribbing. But beneath the banter were hints that something was off. When her face appeared on the phone screen, her dad teased her that she looked hungry and tired. Her smile was more subdued, he noted. Her short hair, usually braided, was rumpled. “Make sure you drink hot milk and relax,” her dad said from his living room in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. That was February 24, the last time anyone in her family saw her. A month later – less than three years after Gakwa left Kenya for the United States – her family reported her missing. At the time of the February video call, Gakwa’s parents were not aware she was living in Gillette, Wyoming, with a man she’d met on a Craigslist forum. They also had no way of knowing that police would later accuse the man of removing money from her checking account, maxing out her credit card and deleting her email account. And they never imagined that six months would go by without a word from her. “She’s always been a daddy’s girl,” said her father, Francis Kambo, in a recent phone interview from Nairobi. He took a deep breath as he recalled that last video call with his only daughter and youngest of his three children. “She was supposed to come home for Christmas this year. I was going to buy that ticket myself for her to come if she couldn’t afford it,” he added, his voice shaking. “Now I don’t know if I’ll ever see her again.” https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/04/us/irene-gakwa-missing-wyoming-cec/index.html

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