Missing
Nadia Kira Kersh
Kersh, approximately 2008; Joacquas Megauil Haywood
Date and time person was reported missing : 11/03/2008
Missing location (approx) :
Homewood, Alabama
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
Age at the time of disappearance: 23 years old
Height / Weight : 5'3, 110 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A green t-shirt with the "Tria Market" logo on the front, an oversized light-colored jacket, blue jeans and clogs.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Kersh wears eyeglasses with rectangular brown frames, and her ears are pierced. She was born in Russia. Kersha's hair was waist-length at the time of her disappearance and she has natural blonde highlights in her hair around her face; she may dye her hair a solid brown color.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Kersh was last seen in Homewood, Alabama on November 3, 2008. She left her cashier job at the Tria Market at 1:00 p.m. to pick up her one-year-old son at his day care, but never arrived and has never been heard from again.
The day after her disappearance, Kersh's red Chrysler Sebring convertible with the license plate number 2D5202F was found abandoned in an alley in west Birmingham, Alabama. Three days after that, her purse was found under an overpass on some railroad tracks, near Montevallo Road and east of Barber Court, about 100 yards from where her car had been.
In May 2010, a year and a half after Kersh's disappearance, Joacquas Megauil Haywood was charged with capital murder in her case. A photo of Haywood is posted with this case summary. He had dated Kersh, and authorities stated he'd been a person of interest from the onset of the investigation. They believe he killed her during a botched burglary.
A witness testified that she saw a driver in a black SUV pull up in front of Kersh's apartment and go inside. Kersh arrived soon after, and the witness heard a cry and a crash. Haywood drove a black SUV.
In the summer of 2011, the case against Haywood was dropped because a judge ruled the prosecution hadn't given him his constitutional right to a speedy trial and because two pieces of evidence hadn't been tested for DNA. By then, Haywood had spent 15 months in custody. Authorities stated they would refile the murder charges against him if more evidence resurfaced.
Kersh was born in Russia and spent the first years of her life in an orphanAge at the time of disappearance: . She is described as an independent and reliable but very trusting young woman and a devoted mother. Foul play is suspected in her case due to the circumstances involved.
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