OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Overland Park Police are stopping short of calling the disappearance of 19-year-old Aisha Kahn an abduction. However, they said they are devoting resources to investigate the case as if it were.
Their investigation has led them to search a two-mile stretch of the nearby Indian Creek riverbed and have gone door-to-door talking to residents in a square-mile radius.
Aisha is a student at Johnson County Community College and takes some of her classes on the KU Edwards campus. Her family reported her missing on Friday, Dec. 16. They have since offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to her safe return.
Police said Aisha was reported missing after her sister, Faiza Kahn, received a disturbing phone call from her.
“‘There’s a creepy guy that just came up to me, and he was just harassing me,'” Faiza said of her sister. “And she was just freaking out at that time. She didn’t know what to do. I guess she pushed him and she slapped him.”
Faiza said she dropped off Aisha around 10 a.m., so she could study for her 12 o’clock final exam. After getting the phone call, Faiza and a cousin rushed to the place where they knew Aisha liked to study — at picnic tables tucked away on the lower level below the main entrance.
“Her book bag was there, her iPod was there, her flash cards were there, her books — and her phone was just sitting on the table,” said Faiza.
But Aisha, who married in July, wasn’t.
“Nobody saw anything, I guess, which is something I don’t understand,” said Sana Habib, cousin. “There is so much construction, and there’s so many people over there. How can not even one person see what’s going on?”
But police said a professor did see Aisha, and at the time, she appeared fine. Three construction workers told police they saw a girl who resembled Aisha walking on campus between 11 a.m. and noon on Friday.
Still, Aisha hasn’t been heard from since that frantic phone call. Her cousin, Habib, said she’s having a difficult time with the idea of Aisha being harmed in any way.
“It just doesn’t feel normal,” she said. “I don’t feel normal, and I hope she is okay.”
At Monday’s news conference police said there is no reason at this time to consider Aisha’s husband as a suspect or person of interest.
Aisha is described as 5’2, 120 pounds, with dark brown hair and brown eyes. She may be wearing glasses.
When she was last seen, Aisha was wearing black sweat pants, a yellow and black shirt, black head scarf, black regular length jacket, and long outer jacket that is black and white.
If you have any information please call either 816.474.TIPS (8477), 913.344.8703, or 911.
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