Unsolved Cases: Alivia Christine Kail

Alivia Christine Kail, a 19 year old living in Pittsburgh's Mount Washington neighborhood, went to her brother's home in West Mifflin Borough on March 5, 2011, to gather some clothes.

Alivia told him that she planned to move to Florida with her boyfriend, Alexander Lorenzi, of the Esplen neighborhood. When her family members were unable to contact her by phone for several days, they became concerned. Then, Alivia's phone was shut off for non-payment. 

When Lorenzi reappeared in Pittsburgh without Alivia and gave conflicting accounts as to her whereabouts, the family's worry deepened.

Lorenzi was arrested on March 30, 2011, for unrelated drug and gun charges.  While searching Lorenzi's home and vehicle, police found three spent shell casings, a pink tote containing women's clothing and a sheet with a possible blood stain on it.

Alivia's mother, Christine DiDiano, identified the clothing as her daughter's. Lorenzi has been uncooperative with law enforcement officials and has refused to discuss Alivia's disappearance. Lorenzi first reported to Alivia's family that she had returned to Pennsylvania after their trip to Florida.

However, according to the PA Liv Safe website, Lorenzi has since told family and police that Alivia decided to stay in Florida. Lorenzi is known to frequently travel outside of Pennsylvania and use commercial airlines as well as rental cars. He had made multiple trips to the Naples, FL, and Wheeling, WV, areas in the weeks before his arrest on the drug and gun charges unrelated to Alivia's disappearance.

This March, on the anniversary of Alivia's disappearance, , where DiDiano grew up, to hold a vigil to remember Alivia and to spread the word that they haven't given up the hope of bringing her home.

At that vigil, DiDiano told the Dormont-Brookline Patch that reports of missing and endangered people seem to be a new epidemic. She recalled that it had been only a few months since a vigil was held for another Brookline person——whose in connection with her January death.

Alivia is described as being about 5-feet-to-5-feet-2-inches tall and weighing 100-105 pounds. She has green eyes and brown hair but frequently changes her hair color. She has a tattoo of a blue flower with swirls on her right hip, and piercings in both ears and above the right side of her lip.

Anyone with information about Alivia's case is asked to call Detective Ken Scanlon of the Allegheny County Police Department at 412-473-1261.

For more information about this and other missing person cases, visit the websites for Pennsylvania Missing Persons, NamUs and The Doe Network.

Dormont-Brookline Patch Editor Erin Faulk contributed to this report.

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