CHICAGO (WBBM Newsradio 780) -- It was five years ago today that the Bradley sisters, Tionda and Diamond, disappeared from their home on Chicago's South Side. And the girls' great aunt has just launched her own Web site to ask for help in finding them.
For five years, Shelia Bradley-Smith has worked to find her great nieces. Making public appeals and public service announcements.
WBBM Newsradio 780's Steve Miller reports Bradley-Smith has now started her own Web site, hoping to get tips.
"I'm absolutely sure that someone knows exactly what happened to Tionda and Diamond because Tionda was not the type of child that would go with a stranger. I've been knowing her all of her life, and she has never demonstrated that type of behavior. So I'm sure that it was somebody that she was very familiar with."
Smith says she has "complete trust and faith" in the Chicago Police cold case squad.
As Newsradio 780 first reported, a cold case detective says she is looking into a tip from a caller who claimed to have a "dream," and that police believed that caller to be credible since she included details that had not been released to the news media.
"I don't find it to be too far-fetched that maybe someone could have a dream," Smith says.
"I myself have had a dream. And my ultimate dream is to find Tionda and Diamond. But whatever leads us to the children, that's what we are all working for."
The Web site: findtiondanddiamond.com.
Diamond would now be 8 years old and Tionda would be 15. They are pictured here, Diamond left and Tionda right, in "age progressed" photos from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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