Fans got a good look at the new slicked-back Janet’s debuted in London last week when “Ms. Jackson If You’re Nasty” performed a medley of her hits during the American Idol Season 9 finale on FOX Wednesday night.

The departure of Simon Cowell come along with one of the biggest upsets in Idol history as paint shop employee Lee DeWyze beat out dreadlocked soul star Crystal Bowersox for the coveted top prize.

Viola Martin vanished on the way to visit a daughter just hours after enjoying the holidays with her children. According to PEOPLE, the family filed a missing person’s report, but shortly thereafter –on New Year’s Eve — police in Glenwood, Ill., found Viola’s car, a 1999 Chrysler Cirrus, in the south Chicago suburbs of Riverdale and Dixmoor — an unfamiliar neighborhood.

“We haven’t heard anything yet,” a heartbroken Angela tells PEOPLE. “The detectives have been calling my sisters and myself, and just keeping us informed. They say they are still just looking and asking us more questions, if we know anything but her friends are calling us, so it’s hard.”

“We haven’t stopped looking. We’ve been out in the cold, and before I left to go to Hollywood, we were looking. I think what hurts us the most was they found her car but they didn’t find her. It was abandoned in a forest preserve in the dark. We just want to know, what were you doing over there?” she adds.

Angela is a 28-year-old single mom of a special needs daughter. She first auditioned for the nation’s most popular TV talent show in 2007, but had eliminated after her father was murdered. In 2008, Martin made it to the Top 50, but was forced to leave the competition due to a court date for a traffic ticket.

This year she made it to Hollywood with a unanimous vote from the judges.

Angela describes her mom as 5-ft. tall, about 165 lbs., light-skinned and with blond and brown hair. “My mom’s a very outgoing person,” she says. “She loves people, period, and she loves kids. When people see her, they just need to say, ‘You need to call your kids,’ and she would probably break down and you will know it’s her right off the bat.”

“I was walking one day, and [I saw] a guy with a baby bottle in his mouth, and he had his pants on the ground. And that’s what gave me the inspiration,” the 63-year-old veteran told the girls, explaining what inspired the animated song that has become a viral sensation.

Darkchild, who has worked artists like Brandy, Beyonce, and Janet Jackson, reportedly drew the attention of Idol producers, when he appeared as a judge on Diddy’s MTV reality show, Starmakers.