There’s still no sign of Ciera Breland a year after she vanished, but without her body, her parents said they’re trapped in a “tormenting” standstill.
“You know how they say they’re waiting for the shoe to drop? We’re waiting for the bomb to drop,” Ciera’s mom, Kelly Locklair, told Fox News Digital. “We’re hoping a fisherman or a hunter or someone like that will stumble across her. Just, please, Lord, someone find her.”
The 31-year-old Indiana lawyer hasn’t been seen since 7:17 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2022, when a surveillance camera recorded her outside her mother-in-law’s home in Johns Creek, Georgia, for a delivery.
At that point, Ciera, her husband Xavier, their 5-month-old son and her dog had been in Georgia for more than a week after their mid-February 2022 trip to Ciera’s parents’ home in the Peach State.
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Locklair said Ciera was “scared” of her husband, a convicted felon who was facing stalking and weapons charges in separate criminal cases.
“Ciera had no intention of returning to Indiana,” Locklair said. “She told me, ‘However I have to leave, I’m leaving … My furniture can rot. I’m never going back.’ That’s how desperate she was to get out.”
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Locklair said her daughter confided in her the couple was having dire money issues, accused her husband of being abusive towards her and using their child as leverage to get her to stay with him.
Xavier Breland’s lawyer could not be reached for comment.
Xavier is the only “person of interest” that police have publicly named since Ciera disappeared, but no charges have been brought against him.
Johns Creek police said last week that there were no updates in the case, but the investigation “remains very active.”
Xavier’s lawyer, Bryan Howard, denied his client did anything wrong in an interview with Fox News Digital last week, and said the case will never…
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