Myra was 2 years old when she disappeared from the family’s home on March 1, 2014. Sanders said she got a phone call that evening with the news.
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Exclusive: Grandmother of missing Camden toddler Myra Lewis breaks silence 12 years later
Twelve years after toddler Myra Lewis vanished from her Camden home, her grandmother is speaking publicly and sharing her own theory about what may have led to the child’s disappearance.
Martha Sanders said the question of what happened to Myra has never left her.
“It’s been difficult at times. It goes off our mind, but we have been thinking and talking it, we never forget about it,” Sanders said.
Myra was 2 years old when she disappeared from the family’s home on March 1, 2014. Sanders said she got a phone call that evening with the news.
“She said, ‘You know Myra is missing. The police and stuff are out here, and I can hear the helicopter…. By that time, it was like seven o’clock,’” Sanders recalled.
In the days that followed, search teams scoured the area on the ground and from the air as the community mobilized to find the little girl. Myra’s mother, Erica Lewis, made a public plea at the time.
“I just need help on finding her. Whoever has her, just bring her home. Please. That’s my baby, not your baby,” Erica Lewis said in 2014.
Now, a dozen years later, Sanders said she believes a family member of Myra’s played a role in the disappearance, including an allegation that Myra may have been sold.
“I know he had something to do with it. There’s no doubt on that,” Sanders said.
3 On Your Side reached out to Madison County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Heath Hall about Sanders’ claim that Myra may have been sold. He said investigators are not ruling anything out and that “everything is still on the table.”
The sheriff’s office says the case remains open and ongoing.
Sanders also addressed questions raised over the years about her daughter’s role in the case.
“Erica had an alibi. She was never alone that whole day. Never alone,” Sanders said. “But why didn’t they put that in the news to let them know Erica had someone with her?”
The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to Myra Lewis’ whereabouts. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
