Leyla Namiranian - Virginia

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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VA – Chesterfield Police are searching for a missing woman who was last seen on the evening of Wednesday, April 4.

Leyla Namiranian, of the 2000 block of Normandstone Drive, was last seen leaving her place of employment at about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Police believe she returned to her home in Chesterfield County on Wednesday, but did not return to work on Thursday. Namiranian's vehicle was located at her residence, and there was no indication she planned to leave. There was no sign of a struggle at her residence.

Namiranian, 41, is described as a white female, about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighing 140 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.

Police are investigating this as a suspicious missing person. Anyone with information about Namiranian's whereabouts should call Chesterfield County Police at 748-1251.
www.chesterfield.gov/m_Display.aspx?id=8589941734

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Police are investigating as suspicious the disappearance of a Midlothian woman who vanished Wednesday without taking her car or giving any notice to her friends or employer that she planned to leave.

Investigators say Leyla Namiranian, 41, of the 2000 block of Normandstone Drive, was last seen about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday leaving Altria Group Inc. in Henrico County, where she works as director of marketing and consumer research for Altria Client Services, a subsidiary of the Altria Group.

Police believe Namiranian returned to her home Wednesday but did not go to work Thursday. Namiranian's vehicle was located outside her residence, and there was no indication that she planned to leave. There was no sign of a break-in to her home, nor any sign of a struggle inside, said Chesterfield County police Lt. Randy Horowitz.

Namiranian's purse and cellphone are missing, Horowitz said. Her luggage appears to be in place, and it doesn't appear anything was packed for a trip. The keys to her car were found in the house, he added.

"She has a good work history and she's not been heard from, which is very out of character for her," Horowitz said. "There are no signs of foul play, but her lack of communication and her lack of showing up for work is causing us concern."

"It's just one of those cases that seem a little strange," he added.

Namiranian has no family in the area and was reported missing by her employer, Horowitz said.

Horowitz said Namiranian, a native of Milan, has been divorced for many years and her former husband, who is from the Middle East, now lives on the West Coast. "So we have no concern about him being involved," Horowitz said.

Investigators are not aware of a boyfriend, and "there's no documented history of problems" involving past relationships, Horowitz said.

Horowitz said there doesn't appear to be any activity on her bank accounts or credit cards since she disappeared.

"We are concerned about our colleague and are assisting Chesterfield police by providing information that could help with their search," Altria spokesman Bill Phelps said in a statement.

Altria Client Services is a subsidiary of Altria Group, and it provides services to all of the corporation's operating companies, Phelps said. As director, Namiranian provides marketing and consumer research support to Philip Morris USA and the corporation's other tobacco companies, Phelps said.

Namiranian's LinkedIn profile says she has been employed with Philip Morris or Altria since 2007 and is experienced in U.S. and international research. In addition to English, she speaks Italian, French and some Spanish.

Police said Namiranian is white, is about 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 140 pounds, and has brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information can call Chesterfield police at [phone]
www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/apr/07/tdmain01-midlothian-womans-disappearance-suspiciou-ar-1824903/

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Ex-husband sheds light on missing woman’s disappearance

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WTVR)–A shroud of mystery surrounds the disappearance of Leyla Namiranian, missing for more than a week.

As puzzling as it is for detectives, it’s just as baffling to her family and friends.

Her ex-husband, Babak Namiranian, lives in Seattle, but says the two remained friends after their divorce a few years ago.

“She`s extremely conservative. Even if she`s going to be late for work for two minutes, she calls five times,” he said.

Namiranian says his ex-wife never did anything in the spur of the moment.

“Honestly, this is the most puzzling part,” he said.

Leyla was last seen leaving her job at 6:30 p.m. at Altria last Wednesday night.

Police believe she returned to her home in Chesterfield because her car was there, but there were no signs of forced entry or a struggle.

Namiranian say the last time he spoke to Leyla was three days before she disappeared. He said she sounded upbeat.

“She mentioned starting a new diet for five weeks, and recommended a new book and what have you,” he said.

Namiranian says Leyla spoke to her brother the same day. He lives in Italy, and says that Leyla told him she had met someone online and they were supposed to meet.

“Now, who that person was and how they were supposed to meet, I have no idea… but when the brother mentioned the person she had met online, especially the timing, that`s the only thing that may make sense,” Namiranian said.

If you have any information about Leyla, call Chesterfield Police at 748-1251.
wtvr.com/2012/04/11/ex-husband-sheds-light-on-missing-womans-disappearance/

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Missing woman, Leyla Namiranian, phones recovered

Police said they have interviewed a man they call a person of interest, and they say he has not been cooperative.

“I`m not at liberty to discuss that,” said Lt. Randy Horowitz with the Chesterfield Police Department when CBS 6 asked for the man’s name.

But Horowitz said they identified him as a person of interest soon after 41-year-old Leyla Namiranian disappeared on April 4.

Horowitz said within days, they searched the man’s apartment in the 3800 block of Chamberlayne avenue in Richmond, and seized his car.

“And we continue to hold that vehicle, we have searched that vehicle extensively and we are waiting on the results of tests we have conducted on it,” he said.

Police won’t say how Namiranian, who lived in a Midlothian neighborhood, met the man who resides at the Fern Tree apartments, but only said that the two were well acquainted.

“They`re not strangers… I`m not going to say the connection,” said Horowitz. ”They`ve known each other for awhile.”

Police also confirmed that two of her cell phones were recovered within one week of her disappearance.

“One was in the roadway, and another one was lying in a ditch adjacent to the roadway in the same general area, but within a few miles of eachother,” said Horowitz.

Namiranian was last seen leaving her job at Altria around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday April 4. Police believe she went home, but never showed up for work on Thursday.

Horowitz said her car was there, but there was no sign of a forced entry or a struggle at her house and no blood found anywhere inside the home.

We asked if an arrest was imminent.

“We await the results of forensic testing and hopeful it will lead us to make an arrest but right now there`s nothing,” he said.

Police are still calling this a missing person’s case, because Namiranian has not been found.
wtvr.com/2012/06/07/police-recover-two-phones-of-missing-chesterfield-woman/

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Police revealed a new discovery in the case of a missing Chesterfield woman. Blood was found in the trunk of a car owned by the primary person of interest.

Leyla Namiranian disappeared last April. The discovery was made by a blood-sniffing dog. A report Tuesday morning from the Richmond Times-Dispatch says investigators discovered blood traces in the trunk of her ex-boyfriend's car.

That man, Michael Anthony Edwards, is the primary person of interest in the disappearance. A CSI team found the evidence with a chemical used to reveal blood traces.

Cell phone records put Edwards near Namiranian's home for five hours the night of her disappearance April 4. They also show him near I-95, where both of Namiranian's phones were found.

Edwards has denied any involvement, and hasn't been charged. Police have said throughout the case, the physical evidence does not conclusively tie Michael Anthony Edwards to the disappearance.
www.nbc12.com/story/20589327/blood-in-car-triggers-new-developments-in-missing-woman-case