CHICAGO — As they have for the past two decades, Tionda and Diamond Bradley’s relatives gathered on Chicago’s South Side on Tuesday to release balloons and pray for answers in the sisters’ 2001 disappearance.
Tionda and Diamond Bradley, 3 and 10 at the time, went missing from their third-floor apartment July 6, 2001, leaving behind just one clue – a strange hand-written note family says was uncharacteristic of Tionda. The girls’ disappearance spurred one of the largest manhunts in the Chicago’s history, and investigators have gone as far as Morocco to look for them.
Twenty years later, the family still has hope someone will come forward with information. Some 50 relatives – including the girls’ mother, sisters,