As Aaron Hernandez’s murder case gripped greater Boston, a nurse quietly vanished. Her family is still seeking answers | CNN

The first clue something was wrong came when Jennifer Mbugua’s gray Toyota Camry turned up overnight behind a Shell station in a Boston suburb. Its engine was off and its doors were shut. Her car keys and one sandal were beside a nearby Dumpster. It was early morning on May 28, 2014. A gas station attendant called police after noticing the empty car parked crookedly at the entrance of the station’s car wash in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. Investigators believe it was left there between midnight and 3 a.m., adding to the mystery. The gas station was roughly 30 miles from Mbugua’s apartment in Fall River, Massachusetts. By the time anyone noticed the abandoned car, the 31-year-old nurse had vanished. Her sister, Lisa Mbugua, learned she was missing when North Attleboro police called that spring morning to ask whether she knew Jennifer’s whereabouts. “It didn’t make sense because she lived in Fall River,” she says now. “I was so confused … why is her car in North Attleboro?” Her disappearance made headlines in a few small media outlets but went largely unnoticed. At the time, much of the Boston area – and the nation – was captivated by a more sensational cas