March 11--Authorities released an age-progressed photo Friday afternoon of Yasmin Acree who went missing in 2008 from her home on the city's West Side.
Acree, now 23, was last seen Jan. 15, 2008, in the 4800 block of West Congress Boulevard in the Austin neighborhood, said police. She was a 15-year-old freshman honor student at Austin Polytechnical Academy at the time of her disappearance, relatives said.
Acree's aunt, who had adopted her, had been visiting a relative in Elgin when the girl went missing. Acree had spent the evening at the West Lawndale YMCA and was dropped off at home about 8 p.m, according to earlier reports.
In 2011, Tribune reporters uncovered a diary of Acree's and found entries that referenced a man who was on parole for attempted murder, who had lived in her building. The same man was awaiting trial in a series of rapes, and had been accused of abducting and raping four young woman, including his then-girlfriend's daughters in May 2009. He had been questioned by police in Yasmin's disappearance.
Acree is described as a black woman, with sandy-colored hair and brown eyes. She is 5 feet 1 inches tall, and weighed about 125 pounds at the time she went missing, police said.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts should call 911 or contact 1-800-843-5678.
