

30 - the same day she had returned home - showing Ware meeting TJ Patterson, the father of her 2-year-old son, around 7:30 p.m. That conversation occurred at about 3 p.m.īut investigators would later uncover surveillance footage from Jan. On Sunday afternoon, Ware was back at her Greenville apartment and told her mother in what would turn out to be their final video chat that she was tired and planned to take a nap.

Simpkins questioned why Ware didn’t believe she’d make it to the milestone just two months away, but her daughter refused to say more.

“And then on Saturday, she was telling me that she didn’t feel like she would see her 30 th birthday.” “She got there Friday evening, and I fed her and the kids, and she just lay down and went to sleep,” Simpkins recalled. She also made a grim prediction about her upcoming birthday not long after arriving at her mother’s home for a weekend visit in January. Ware’s mother, Alberta Simpkins, told “Dateline” correspondent Andrea Canning that her daughter believed someone was following her. The same weekend a South Carolina mom of two mysteriously disappeared, she confided in her mom that “the devil” wouldn’t stop calling her.Īlexis Ware, 29, didn’t tell her mom who she suspected was behind the incessant blocked phone calls she had been getting all weekend, only referring to the caller by that ominous nickname, but it seemed clear that Ware was afraid, according to a new episode of the “Dateline: Missing in America” podcast.
