In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, I am profiling one Asian or Pacific Islander MP for every day of the month of May. Today’s case is Nachida Keota Chandara, a fifteen-year-old girl of Laotian descent who disappeared from Phoenix, Arizona on March 14, 2007.
Nachida is classified as a runaway and is known to have been in Detroit, a full two thousand miles away, two months after she disappeared. She has been known to use several alias names, and some of the photos I’ve got for her look like mugshots. It sounds like she is or was being trafficked.
Some of the internet sleuths thought Nachida might be Fond du Lac Jane Doe, a young woman who was found dead in Wisconsin in November 2008. They were mistaken, but the speculation did cause one person to blog about her case.
The Charley Project Blog 