Cynthia Martyna Bah-Traore (nee Alvoid ) is an American woman who disappeared on the evening of February 3, 2021. Her whereabouts remain unknown. She was last seen on Shell Gas station's surveillance footage located at 1003 E Criner St. Grandview, Texas 76050.[1] Bah-Traore was last seen wearing a blue long-sleeve shirt, black pants, gray with white shoes, and carrying a red purse with plaid markings. She was driving a Mazda CX-5 Texas license plate NMJ 3883.[2] Her phone was reportedly discovered at the gas station.[3] Cynthia's son reported that his mother never returned home after running errands.[3] Cynthia has two children.[4] At the time of her disappearance, Bah-Traore was living in Crowley, Texas, and her case is being investigated by the Crowley Police Department.[5] There is also an FBI agent assigned to the case.
According to police report records, on February 16, her vehicle was found abandoned along Interstate 35, between Milemarker 354 and 355, in Waco, Texas, with no sign of Bah-Traore.[6] The Find Cynthia Coalition was formed to bring awareness about Bah-Traore's disappearance and help find her. The Coalition created a website: www.findcynthia.com. Currently, the Coalition is offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to Cynthia's return.[7]
In January 2022, Access Hollywood's Zuri Hall featured a story about the disappearance of Bah-Traore.[8][9] Her mother told Access Hollywood: "I miss my daughter. I really can't process it."[3] She said: "Whoever parked her car knows where Cynthia is. I'm hoping someone will come forward and tell us more information."[3] Access Hollywood partnered with the Black and Missing Foundation to highlight her case.[10][11][12]
On June 14, 2024, journalist Roland Martin covered Bah-Traore's disappearance on his show Unfiltered.[13] Martin highlighted the suspicious circumstances of Bah-Traore's disappearance, law enforcement's handling of the case, and the $50,000 reward. Several true crime podcasts have covered the disappearance of Cynthia Bah-Traore.[14][15] Black Girl Gone Podcast did a two-part series about Bah-Traore in February/March 2024.[16][17] Bah-Traore also recorded podcasts before her disappearance.[18]
Oxygen is an American cable and digital multicast television network owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group unit of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. The network primarily airs true crime television series and police procedural dramas targeted towards women. The channel launched in 1998, under the ownership of Oxygen Media, a consortium including Geraldine Laybourne and Oprah Winfrey among other stakeholders. It originally carried a format of lifestyle and entertainment programming oriented towards women, similar to Lifetime. Oxygen Media was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in the mid-2000s, and NBCUniversal acquired it from Disney in 2007 for nearly $1 billion, after which the channel began to place a stronger focus on targeting young adult women. After the network experienced ratings successes with a programming block dedicated to such programming, Oxygen was relaunched in mid-2017 to focus primarily on true crime programs and crime dramas. The channel initially operated as a cable network; in 2022, Oxygen began to also operate as a digital multicast television network on subchannels of NBC Owned Television Stations. As of November 2023, Oxygen is available to approximately 59,000,000 pay television households in the United States, down from its 2012 peak of 80,000,000 households. Under its current format, it primarily competes with Investigation Discovery and HLN, which are both owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Payne Lindsey is an American director, documentary filmmaker, Right Side of the Tree lead singer and podcast host. He is best known for co-creating and hosting the hit investigative journalist and true crime podcasts Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster.
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