Family and friends of a missing Olney teacher gathered at the Montgomery County Police Headquarters in Gaithersburg on Monday to ask for the public's help with finding her.
Laura Wallen, 31, is a teacher at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia and four-months pregnant.
Police said the family became concerned after Wallen was a no-show for the first day of class despite preparing her classroom for weeks.
Wallen's car, a 2011 Ford Escape, was found parked on the 10600 block of Gramercy Place in Columbia last Thursday.
According to detectives from the Montgomery County Police Department, family members last received a text from Wallen's phone on the morning of Sept. 4.
Wallen's boyfriend and father of the child, Tyler Tessier, said that there was no indication before her disappearance that anything was wrong:
