A local woman missing- Mary Kubica

Leo and his sister because Meredith needed to run to a birth and
Josh wasn’t home. It’s not uncommon.
Josh tells me that he can’t find Meredith and he hasn’t heard from
her.
“She must be at a birth,” I say.
Josh’s reply is irresolute. He’s of two minds about it, saying,
“Maybe. I don’t know. But I don’t think so. She would have called me
if she was heading to a birth. She always calls. And then there’s
Delilah...” he says, voice trailing.
I ask him, “Where’s Delilah?” Delilah is Josh and Meredith’s
daughter. She’s six.
Josh is shaking his head, the rainwater spraying off. “I don’t know,”
he says. “I don’t know where Delilah is, either.” There’s a panic to his
voice. He shouts over the rain.
I ask him again to come inside, but he won’t. His eyes swing back
and forth from his house to me, and I know that he’s watching for
Meredith, waiting for her to come home.
Josh goes back to the beginning. He fills me in on the details of
the day. He was at work, he says. He took the train home and went
to the babysitter’s house to pick up Delilah and Leo, same as he
always does. He took the 5:46 out of Chicago, which gets into town
at 6:26. “It was probably around 6:45 by the time I got to the sitter’s
house,” he says. The sitter lives in the neighborhood, about a mile
from here. Bea and I don’t have kids, but I know where she lives. I
know which house is hers.
“When I got there,” he says, “the sitter told me only Leo was there.
She said that Meredith had kept Delilah home for the day because
she was running a fever. She said Meredith had called Delilah in sick
to school, and had canceled her own classes.”
Meredith teaches at a yoga studio in town. She does it to
supplement the income she makes as a doula, not that she and Josh
need it because Josh does well enough for both of them. He works
in wealth management, dealing with high net worth clients. But
Meredith’s schedule is irregular, with peaks and valleys. Some
weeks are overladen with births. Then she goes weeks without a
single birth. She used to complain that she needed stability in her