Shantika “Tika” Lashae Dunlap, 30, was last seen last Wednesday by her longtime boyfriend at their home and was reported missing to police the following day, said Lt. Gregory Dorn.

“He’s speaking a lot more, even beyond more than he’s supposed to be speaking,” she said with a laugh. Shantika Mallory, a disabilities and mental health specialist who works at sites in the northeast ...