Reshaunda Therace Gerald is an avid social media user. The Norfolk, Virginia mother of three updated her Facebook page multiple times a day. The last post that she made was on January 4, 2017, at 8:12 am, family reports. Her mother saw Reshaunda on the same day, at 8:00 am, when she left their house on Coleman Place in a black Nissan with an ex-boyfriend, Mark Morgan, the Charley Project reports. She told her mother she would return to pick her daughters up from school at 3:00 pm, family members report. The ex-boyfriend and Reshaunda were previously engaged, but their relationship ended because Mark was already married and refused to leave his wife, reports the Charley Project.
Her family called her cell phone multiple times, but their calls went straight to voicemail. The family knew Reshaunda would never leave her three children, then ages 15, 10, and 8 and her father reported Reshaunda missing on January 6, 2017.
Authorities questioned, Mark, the married, ex-boyfriend, who confessed to an intimate relationship with Reshaunda. According to court documents, he told investigators he was married and had been in a relationship with Reshaunda for a year. He said he picked Reshaunda up the morning of January 4, 2017, driving his wife’s black Nissan. He took her to pay her water bill at the Norfolk Utilities Department and then to a carwash in Portsmouth, where they were intimate in the Nissan. Three hours he later, he dropped her off at the intersection of Lincoln Street and Olney Road. He then spent the night with his wife at the Fairfield Inn at 1560 Crossways Boulevard in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Investigators discovered through cell records and video surveillance footage that Mark was lying. The pair was never at a car wash that day, and he never dropped Reshaunda off at the intersection of Lincoln and Olney.
Instead, her phone pinged off cellphone towers near the home Mark shared with his wife in Chesapeake on January 4, 2017, from 10:49 am through 11:09 pm. Her phone also pinged the cell phone towers located across the street from the Fairfield Inn Hotel on Crossways Boulevard the same night Mark stayed there with his wife.
On February 11, 2017, investigators searched the black Nissan belonging to his wife and found a trunk mat and hatchet wrapped in a plastic bag that tested positive for human blood.
They determined the hatchet was purchased from a Meiggs Hardware store at 1153 George Washington Highway North on January 7, 2017, two days after Reshaunda was reported missing.
There is no news of any charges or arrests made by the authorities in connection with her disappearance.
Reshaunda Therace Gerald has never been found.
Reshaunda Therace Gerald is 5’1" and weighs 110 pounds. She was last seen wearing a pink jacket with fur inside, blue jeans with holes in the knees, and pink and black Jordan shoes.
There is a Facebook page dedicated to finding Reshaunda, Bring Reshaunda Gerald Home Now:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064910791521
If you have any information, please contact the Norfolk Crime Stoppers at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
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