Akia Eggleston
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On May 3, 2017, 22-year-old Akia Eggleston was seen in Baltimore, Maryland on surveillance video withdrawing money from her bank account. She was 8 months pregnant with her second child and was unable to drive or even walk more than a short distance because her pregnancy was considered high-risk. After this bank transaction, Akia was never seen again. She was preparing to move to a new apartment and was planning her baby shower where she would share the gender of her baby with those she loved. Akia had two-year-old daughter, a son on the way, and her whole life in front of her. What happened to Akia after this bank transaction on May 3?
If you have any information about Akia’s disappearance, you can call the Baltimore Police Department at 443-984-7385 or 410-396-2100. You can leave an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers at 866-756-2587. Alternatively, you can contact the FBI at 410-265-8080.
UPDATE: In February of 2022, the father of Akia's unborn child, Michael Robertson, was arrested for the murder of Akia and her unborn son. This story is still developing, and we hope to bring you an update in the future.
You can follow Akia’s story on social media at Missing Akia Eggleston
Special thanks to Claudia Rivero and Rosemary Rade. You can find more of Claudia's work at https://www.claudiariverotv.com. For more information on the National Domestic Violence Hotline, please visit https://www.thehotline.org.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:20.1 | She just had a lot going on for herself. Well, I'm gonna say she has a lot going on for herself |
| 0:25.3 | I'm not even gonna talk about her in the past since it just seems like it's so long since we've seen her now |
| 0:32.3 | Her grandmother |
| 0:34.1 | Called my husband and said did you know a kid with missing and he called me at work |
| 0:38.4 | And I'm like, what are you talking about? What do you mean she's missing and we pull it up online and there's the story of her being missing |
| 0:46.0 | And so |
| 0:47.2 | That's where everything stops. The one has seen her heard from her |
| 0:50.7 | Nothing and one thing I do know about her is that she would never leave her daughter and her younger sister and brother |
| 0:59.0 | Navinor in a million years |
| 1:01.5 | They kept saying, oh well, she's a doll she can walk away and we're thinking, oh what eight months woman, you know, and her |
| 1:08.2 | Fate is gonna just get up and walk off. We call it all the hospitals. We call it the moors. We call it |
| 1:14.1 | birthing centers. We call it homeless shelters. We call it everywhere giving descriptions and nothing |
| 1:20.8 | You know every time we go we always talk to people and they said I never even heard of her story |
| 1:25.7 | And it's like well, how can you not hear her story? It's four houses down from what you live at |
| 1:31.2 | And these were from people that have been living there the times you were missing |
| 1:36.8 | I guess it's just the perseverance of not stopping and it's just it's an everyday thing we wake up |
| 1:43.3 | Thinking about her we go to bed thinking about her we call each other lunch thinking about her |
| 1:47.6 | But at this point right now this family is just looking for closure and having her you know come home if she is deceased |
| 1:55.3 | Having her bodies will be going to lay her rest in a proper burial |
| 1:58.7 | And if she's alive you get her back and give her the love and encouragement that she needs to recover from this |
| 2:05.9 | But it's it's kind of hard when you know |
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