Every morning, Ebony Giddens would be visited by her brother, who would come by her house to pick up her three sons and take them to school. It’s common for this close-knit Columbus, Georgia, family to do things with and for one another, yet their routine changed on Monday, March 12, 2018. When Ebony’s brother knocked on the door and didn’t get an answer, he became confused. His sister always greeted him at the door and rushed her little ones off with their uncle. This time, however, the knocks went unanswered.
“Her brother then called me and asked if I had talked to her that morning,” Roderick Daniel, the father of Ebony’s son, said. He spoke with Ebony in the late afternoon the day before, but they hadn’t had any contact since then. The two men frantically called Ebony, but she didn’t answer. Roderick made his way to Ebony’s home to find out if his ex and the children were safe.
“Finally, my son came to the door,” Roderick said of Ebony’s middle child. “He just said that mom was gone.”