Isabel Celis Breaking News: Child Services Removes Sons From Sergio Celis Care and Placed With Mother
In the latest development in the April 21st disappearance of missing Tucson child Isabel Celis, her father Sergio has been stripped of his physical custodial rights of her brothers.
There has been no confirmation from Tucson Police about the children’s removal and placement, and CPS has only confirmed the boys have been placed with one parent.
Sources inside the investigation have confirmed to www.blinkoncrime.com that evidence gleaned in the investigation has warranted alternative placement of the couples oldest children in the wake of the disappearance of their daughter, Isabel.
The boys, whose names have been reported previously elsewhere but are being intentionally withheld by www.blinkoncrime.com have been placed together, not separately.
Check back to www.blinkoncrime.com for details.
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By the way, the vidoes/photos of Isa’s baseball team paying tribute to her by wearing her “NUMBER 4″ on their uniforms . . . tells me Isa had a uniform.
Thanks everyone for the response on my comments. I must say that although it is of course possible that Isa was taken at the time the neighbor heard the men talking, it just doesn’t seem likely to me. For the abductor(s) to talk loudly enough for the neighbor to hear them while in the process of removing Isa from the home…how could they know that their talking would not awake someone in the Celis’ home? That’s rhetorical of course…just me thinking out loud. Blink do you know if anyone has mentioned that Isa had a habit (or at least had done it before) of wandering away from home? If she didn’t, I don’t understand how the father could let an hour and a half pass before he contacted 911 or at least his wife to see if she had saw Isa before she left for work.
Now I’m wondering if Isabel’s baseball uniform was found in the home – - in particular her jersey.
I understand going to sleep in a tank top, just to pull on the jersey over-top in the morning.
In the parents’ local media interview, Sergio lamented that LE still had his new camera that had pictures of Isabel with her puppy and baseball pictures of her.
Wondering also when Isabel and her team got those jerseys.
Something weird here.
Could it be the store owner that was involved? Just so happened the camera was turned off that night…
Tarheel says:
May 23, 2012 at 4:30 pm
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I totally agree, Tarheel, if it was him and another male relative out and about at 6:28AM.
@Tarheel
(snipped) “I don’t understand how the father could let an hour and a half pass before he contacted 911 or at least his wife to see if she had saw Isa before she left for work.
@ GraceintheHills says:
May 23, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Tarheel says:
May 23, 2012 at 4:30 pm
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“I totally agree, Tarheel, if it was him and another male relative out and about at 6:28AM.”
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SC has stated he did not check on his daughter until 8:am when he discovered her missing and called 911. So my question is what caused the dogs to alert at 6:30am? If SC is telling the truth and the neighbor who awoke to dogs barking and male voices at 6:30am is credible it’s a reasonable assumption it wasn’t SC and relatives looking for Isa a 6:30am.
The Arizona Diamondbacks (also the name of Isa’s team) played a home-game while the family was at the son’s baseball game:
9:40 PM ET, April 20, 2012
Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Attendance: 27,761 Time of Game: 2:50
So the game began 7:40 AZ time, ending somewhere at 10:30pm AZ time – - – the time SC said the family got home around from his son’s baseball game . . . around 10:30. (fwiw, Joe Vega said everyone left the park at the same time around 10, George Hanna said SC stayed behind to help clean up – - – don’t know if that was the entire family or if they took separate vehicles, or what, or if Joe Vega meant those who stayed to clean up all left around 10pm)
SC told 911 he fell asleep on the couch (adding in the living room, next to the shared wall of Isabels’ bedroom) watching the Diamondback’s game around midnight . . . so he wasn’t watching a live game.
Putting the immediate family aside for a sec, given the alleged timeline, if the Diamondbacks home game finished around 10:30pm, someone who was watching the game live AND knew Isabel may also be someone to look at.
Sgt. Maria Hawke at one of the last pressers, mentioned the possibility (among others) of Isabel being enticed to leave the home.
Knowing very little about Isabel, what would interest her to leave her room at night . . . her puppy, something to do with the professional Diamondbacks team/uniforms/hat, and/or her own team/uniform?
Just thinking.
I’m back thinking about how SC VOLUNTARILY handed the boys over to his wife. So, ok….he wasn’t ordered to do it, right? It was what?…… SUGGESTED to him that it would be in the best interest of the investigation to do so? Which if that’s the case, it would mean he’s cooperating, or so it would seem. Blink, I guess I don’t get this aspect of the case. If they had damning evidence that the father is a bad parent, why didn’t they take the kids from him? Why did they leave the decision up to him and allow him to voluntarily hand the boys over? And what if he had decided not to? Then would they have pursued it legally? Wouldn’t the normal response from most parents be “No, I’m not giving up my children, if you have something on me, prove it or leave us alone?” So could this whole thing with giving Becky the kids be some sort of police tactic that he’s going along with, in hopes of getting Isa back…..or do they really have something on him and he’s just saving them the cost of a child custody hearing? I’m being sarcastic about trying to save them money, but my point is why would someone VOLUNTARILY give the kids up. Sorry, this might be obvious, but I’m not getting it.
Agreed, but seeing this would need to be perpetrated by someone that could drive a vehicle, imo..
BTW- Wth is up with Marc Klaas these days? Telling Sergio to lawyer up? I thought I was hearing things.
B
Regarding pajama’s versus “play clothes” or shorts and tank, I agree not knowing is curious. However, not so much by a dad as would be a mom not knowing.
My husband would have a hard time telling you what my kids wore to bed unless he got them out of the chest of drawers himself. I would be able to tell you, but only because it’s a mom-thing for me.
When my sons got older, I stopped wearing traditional night clothes/pajama’s nightgowns, etc. I now always wear comfortable shorts & top — sometimes even ones I might were to a ballgame, but I feel more covered than in pj’s around 12 & 14 year old boys. I choose comfortable clothes, but still, it’s not pajama’s or nightgowns like during my first 15 years of marriage.
Also, I have one son who wears pajama pants and a t-shirt every night and another who wears pull-up elastic waist shorts and a tank/muscle shirt (in the south we call them “wife beaters” – how awful LOL) to bed every night. These are often the same shorts he may wear outside to play. My point is I don’t think that Isa wearing something other than traditional pajama’s should be an issue. As long as she was comfortable and clean…it doesn’t tell me anything about this case as I don’t think it is significant or really matters, MOO. That being said, at 6 years old, my kids may have worn traditional pajamas, tops and bottoms, on occasion since they owned them, but even then, for one son, it was not the norm.
@FloridaGirl says:
May 23, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Remember in the 911 call made by Sergio ?
Operator: What was she wearing ???
Sergio: Before she went to bed ???
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The question/answer during the 911 call is very “hinky” though MOO, but I am trying not to judge SC on that call as I don’t know him personally, and can’t assess what would be his “normal” in a situation such as this.
Prayers for Isa.
Kris–
I agree. If you are innocent, it seems most likely that you’d fight against separation from your kids—ESPECIALLY under the circumstances where one of your children is missing. To me, you would be clinging to your other children.
This action (voluntariliy leaving his kids) is one more thing that makes SC suspect to me. This, the 911 call, his strange word choices during interviews makes SC appear to be an unattached father, imo. Yes, just because one is “unattached” does not mean one would necessarily harm one’s child. However, it certainly does not make you look good to most outsiders, imo.
Flo says:
May 23, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Could it be the store owner that was involved? Just so happened the camera was turned off that night
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What camera? I had always thought the reference to the camera that was turned off was on the Celis house. Was it on a store nearby?
FYI: I drove to the neighborhood last weekend so I could see exactly where the house was situated. TO give everyone who is not local a better sense, I must share that the news pictures make the house look much larger and the lot much more expansive. Even on the Google Maps, it’s hard to get a real sense of the house positioning in relation to the road, etc. The house is actually very close to the road and feels “crammed” into its corner lot. On the back side of the house is an alley and also on the one side of the house (where there is no house because the house sits on a corner lot) is a narrow alley/roadway between the family home and the edge of a strip mall. The house is on the dead end of the street. The street dead-ends where it meets the alley that separates it from the strip mall.
My immediate reaction to the neighborhood is that it seemed tight, small, and like an unsafe place with the alley and the close proximity to the edge of a commercial building. It is all quite unkempt around the house and general area–desert weeds growing, etc. I felt like it was a place one could crouch and sneak around. ALL THIS BARRING THE PRESENCE OF A CAMERA, of course.
Flo, if that non-working camera was the one on the edge of the strip mall I saw, it is so close that it would have picked up on something had it been working.
ooops, correction on the Diamondbacks game, Arizona time:
game started 6:40pm AZ time (not 7:40)
ended around 9:30 AZ time (not 10:30)
sorry for the time-zone errors
I agree with SouthernMom about not putting too much importance on whether Isa was wearing “pyjamas” per se or regular shorts/T-shirt. Since I was a little girl until today, I have often worn shorts and T-shirts or tank tops to bed. I also have what could be labeled “pyjamas” (as I wouldn’t wear them outside of the house) but which are in essence two pieces made up of shorts and a top. IMO the important things are:(#1) whether what Isa was last seen going to bed in is also what she wore to the baseball game that night. Sergio said they all took showers, and I would find it very unusual for her to sleep in the same clothes from earlier in the day given the circumstances. (#2) what the other family members in the house last saw Isa wearing and at what times and do those descriptions sync up.
As to the discrepancy in the descriptions of her clothing, specifically the shirt, I wonder if it could’ve been a misunderstanding based on the initial 911 calls. Isa’s brother said Isa was “probably wearing pyjamas” which were “pink, maybe green. I don’t know.” After the brother gets back to house, he asks his mother what Isa was wearing “last night.” He relays Becky’s response to the dispatcher as “shorts” and then adds “she was wearing an Old Navy American flag shirt.” The dispatcher asks what bottoms, and he responds, “just an American flag was on ‘em and I think it’s navy blue shorts.” On his 911 call, Sergio Celis described Isa’s clothing as “little navy blue shorts and, and a pink, uh, a pink like little, uh, tank top type of a shirt.”
IIRC, Blink may have already commented on this, but I wonder if “Old Navy” could have been misinterpreted by the dispatcher and others as the color of the shirt and not the brand, especially after hearing it was paired with “navy blue shorts.” Perhaps both were correct and the Old Navy brand American flag shirt was pink. I don’t recall if this was ever clarified/confirmed anywhere. Of course it’s also possible that this could be one of the “inconsistencies” referred to by police which would be much more ominous.
It’s interesting that on the BringIsaHome website, there is no mention of what Isa was last wearing under the “circumstances” section or on the “About Isa” page (although plenty of CYA details about how they discovered her missing, the screen being out, etc). Only one of the many English-language fliers posted on the site gives a clothing description : a blue tank top and blue shorts. Another flier says no information is available on what Isa was last seen wearing.
Misunderstanding, inconsistency, intentional deceit or unknown? I hope the police have been able to pin it down.
I just read on SA that LE is going to reinterview RSO for a second time. The ones that were involved with children 10 and under.
@ Blink, appeciate your feedback, and totally makes sense, statistics tell us that my theory is more than likely not probable- as you said, it would seem to explain the parents seemingly lack of urgency/desperation that one would expect in this situation. Glad my idea was not totally “out there”, and who knows….maybe it’s true (I know, I know). Speaking of the word “maybe”…I do apologize, I sure used that word “maybe” about a thousand times in my last post, lol! After I submitted I went back through and re-read my comments and almost drove myself crazy- I’ll try to think of a different word to substitute next time!
@Kris, I agree with your statment in regards to SC and the whole seperation from the boys…kind of along the lines with what I was trying to get to (I just didn’t word it as well)….just doesn’t make sense why SC would so willingly go along with it, unless it was some type of tactic or ploy they were using to get Isa back. Who knows….as Blink pointed out though in her response to me- it makes sense that that could be the case, but statistics show differently etc.
As BC stated, guess all our questions will be answered when Isa is back home- I pray that she does come back home safely- she reminds me so much of my 6 yr old niece (and GodChild) Gemma….
Lyla says @ May 23, 2012 at 7:21 pm
SC has stated he did not check on his daughter until 8:am when he discovered her missing and called 911. So my question is what caused the dogs to alert at 6:30am? If SC is telling the truth and the neighbor who awoke to dogs barking and male voices at 6:30am is credible it’s a reasonable assumption it wasn’t SC and relatives looking for Isa a 6:30am.
Thanks Lyla. I guess I had missed that point. According to SC’s account then, it was not him that the neighbor heard talking. That leads me back to my original comments that I can’t believe that a stranger would be so brazen to remove Isa at that time of day. But then I guess criminals aren’t always known to be the smartest of the bunch so who knows.
Tarheel says:
May 24, 2012 at 9:32 am
Lyla says @ May 23, 2012 at 7:21 pm
SC has stated he did not check on his daughter until 8:am when he discovered her missing and called 911. So my question is what caused the dogs to alert at 6:30am? If SC is telling the truth and the neighbor who awoke to dogs barking and male voices at 6:30am is credible it’s a reasonable assumption it wasn’t SC and relatives looking for Isa a 6:30am.
Thanks Lyla. I guess I had missed that point. According to SC’s account then, it was not him that the neighbor heard talking. That leads me back to my original comments that I can’t believe that a stranger would be so brazen to remove Isa at that time of day. But then I guess criminals aren’t always known to be the smartest of the bunch so who knows.
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Not only does it seem unlikely that a “kidnapper” would take a child from her bedroom at that time of day, but how many would do so with the help of a 2nd or 3rd party. Male voice(S) were heard – plural. How often do we see 2 or more random pedophiles conspiring and kidnapping an unknown child together?
@Tarheel says:
May 24, 2012 at 9:32 am
“Lyla says @ May 23, 2012 at 7:21 pm
SC has stated he did not check on his daughter until 8:am when he discovered her missing and called 911. So my question is what caused the dogs to alert at 6:30am? If SC is telling the truth and the neighbor who awoke to dogs barking and male voices at 6:30am is credible it’s a reasonable assumption it wasn’t SC and relatives looking for Isa a 6:30am.”
Thanks Lyla. I guess I had missed that point. According to SC’s account then, it was not him that the neighbor heard talking. That leads me back to my original comments that I can’t believe that a stranger would be so brazen to remove Isa at that time of day. But then I guess criminals aren’t always known to be the smartest of the bunch so who knows.”
@Kris says:
May 24, 2012 at 10:40 am
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“Not only does it seem unlikely that a “kidnapper” would take a child from her bedroom at that time of day, but how many would do so with the help of a 2nd or 3rd party. Male voice(S) were heard – plural. How often do we see 2 or more random pedophiles conspiring and kidnapping an unknown child together?”
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Take a look a pueblodweller’s post #10 for a description of the Celis property…pretty interesting. I am guessing LE is not buying SC’s account of what happened that morning.
Flo, if that non-working camera was the one on the edge of the strip mall I saw, it is so close that it would have picked up on something had it been working.
The camera picked up the 5 people walking from the bar the next night, but this was too late. The store owner talked like he had a state of the art camera. If so, someone climbed up on the roof and moved the position. Or was it cut off? I may have missed something about this camera. oops.
Kris says:
May 24, 2012 at 10:40 am
Not only does it seem unlikely that a “kidnapper” would take a child from her bedroom at that time of day, but how many would do so with the help of a 2nd or 3rd party. Male voice(S) were heard – plural. How often do we see 2 or more random pedophiles conspiring and kidnapping an unknown child together?
EXCELLENT point Kris. I would say the possibility would be about zilch. So my opinion would be that Isa was taken earlier in the evening, was taken for reasons other than sexual, or a family member is involved.
My other half works in Tucson and has a friend who works in parole/probation there. Said person mentioned being quite busy checking on their charges of late at the request of the powers that be in light of Isa’s disappearance. So, they are still checking and re-checking RSOs and parolees. This might tell me that they really have no clue in this case.
I have been reading and following since the beginning. Just wanted to throw these out there. I believe someone waited until everyone was asleep and then did something very bad to Isa and then ended her life. (Why would a 6 year old little girl want to sleep with her brothers? Maybe because she thought they could protect her from someone else in the house?) If she did sleep with her brothers every night, why was she in her room “that” night? Was she moved there? I’m assuming the police took the sheets, pillows, all of it and ran DNA tests on it. What did they find? How could someone get her out of the house without anyone hearing or noticing anything different – with dogs in the house or yard? When I wake up and go downstairs at night my dogs don’t bark at me. They bark at every squirel or even the neighbors though. How did the person get her out -through the windwow, the door, the garage door? And then there’s the hit by the dogs brought in and the trash being removed that morning. Was it SC and son, SC and friend, or trash collectors outside that morning at 6:28am? I don’t think the sons had anything to do with it but I think parents can manipulate their kids faily easy and lie to them. And the fact they were barred from contact with him doesn’t look good. He can’t manipulate them. And I still think the police are trying to protect them. Did SC wait until after the trash collectors came to call 911?
I just wonder how she was taken away from the home. Did SC have friends that drove delivery trucks or that would have helped him remove her that morning? Maybe called someone loyal to come and get her?
I still don’t believe BC was involved but I believe she was lied to and just being loyal to her husband right now.
Absolutely don’t believe it was a stranger abduction. No way.
Blink,
Do you know what the radius is of a phone signal hitting a tower? If someone was sitting in that house, would their phone signal hit one specific tower until they moved out of that radius? I don’t know much about those but I heard it could be up to a ten mile radius between towers. I know sitting here in Michigan across the water from Canada, I can be sitting in my office and I can move to a certain spot and get a “Welcome to Canada” message on my phone. Could someone in Tuscon that hit a tower in Mexico get a “Welcome to Mexico” message? Just trying to figure out the Mexio connection, besides the obvious.
8. wpg says:
May 23, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Agreed, but seeing this would need to be perpetrated by someone that could drive a vehicle, imo..
BTW- Wth is up with Marc Klaas these days? Telling Sergio to lawyer up? I thought I was hearing things.
B
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according to his facebook page, looks like there are others
that believe the same.
SIGH!
Mary says:
May 24, 2012 at 7:30 am
I just read on SA that LE is going to reinterview RSO for a second time. The ones that were involved with children 10 and under.
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Mary, I am glad to hear that. I wonder if the Celis’s inadvertently left any door unlocked that night. That is how many predators and burglars are able to enter homes without alerting the owners. That said, I know my two dogs would go nuts barking (especially my Cairn) if someone entered our home at night.
Some other thoughts:
I still wonder if this case is related to the molestation that occurred 20-30 minutes away. This perp had no problem entering an occupied house and molesting a child.
Re: Mark Klass, if my memory serves me correctly he was considered a POI for awhile in his daughter’s disappearnce, so he may have some empathy for SC. At this point I am not at all convinced SC harmed Isa. My opinion would change if more evidence that points to his involvement emerges.
Irt, the parent’s so-called odd behavior: If the parents are innocent, I would just remind everyone that denial can be one of the strongest defense mechanisms.
I also agree with all the posters who think Isa was abducted earlier in the night. If the perp entered through Isa’s window he could have taken her out through a door, rather than the window.
“Isabel’s parents help move volunteer command post”
(snip)
“The parents of missing Tucson 6-year-old, Isabel Celis, appeared together this morning as volunteers helping in the search moved their command post to a new location at a school behind Park Place Mall.
This is the first time we’ve seen Rebecca and Sergio Celis together since Tucson News Now learned early last week that Child Protective Services forbid Sergio to see his two boys.
The Celis’ would not speak on camera today.”
article AND PHOTO:
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/18616989/isabels-parents-help-move-volunteer-command-post
Wow . . . words fail me.
Is there anything you know or can tell us, Blink? I must confess I’m somewhat obsessed with this case. I think of Isabel and her family off and on throughout the day and constantly check for updates. I don’t know why some cases hit me harder than others, but the story of this little girl has left an impression on my heart. I so want her to be alive and make it home safely. Any new info, your thoughts, speculations, or theories are always appreciated. Thanks, Blink, for keeping us informed and all that you do!
Klaas has been there done that.
I don’t think he gets into guilt or innocense stuff leaving it to LE
I have wondered why he promotes searches selectivrly.
He imo brokered Kaine’s Social Worker of Year Award with his Calif friend whose “Do” Klaas keynoted.
He feels for Dads; what can we say but God Bless?
But not see him as a leadership judge of case facts in any case.
That’s not his social leadership role.
Blink, you’re probably all over this but:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/person_in_custody_in_patz_disappearance_eEcUgDAqlekvwMV0B4QMyJ#ixzz1vmfks0LE
Etan Patz arrest
SC, you’re inside a school . . . take off the sunglasses.
@kris
Not for publication, no.
Thank you Word girl.
I wrote about master etan, I apolly I can’t access his piece and send you the link. I am enroute to blinkette district championship game and I will check back tonight to post it if nobody else does. This little man is so very personal to me.
@ wpg.
For serious. Ditto.
wpg says:
May 24, 2012 at 3:30 pm
“Isabel’s parents help move volunteer command post”
WOW is right. That photo is worth a 1000 words. Hopefully, she’s just irritated with the logistics of the move. And I may be a little behind due to end of school year activities, but am I the only one surprised by “since CPS forbid Sergio to see his two boys.” I thought his disengagement was voluntary. Did I miss something?
I took Mark Klaas’ statement a little different in that maybe things are not looking good for SC and he is not doing anything to change that so in this case he will need a lawyer at some point. Most innocent people that do everything they can will probably not need a lawyer. Just a thought.
Back on the subject of why SC would voluntarily stay away from his fam…someone at SM (I think) brought this up and it sounded very good! If SC did not have any “direct” contact with DFACS maybe whatever complaint was lodged against him (if just him)required that he take a course, a drug test, etc., or something that had not been completed and now if he did go do it it would bring out in the open what the charge was and may make him look even more guilty in this present case? Maybe they just wanted to interview him about something happening in the home and he gave them the run around? Sounds to me like he’s been bitten by the lawyer up bug, huh? This just made all the sense in the world to me and I need to go find whom to credit this thought to. I thank you! Whatever it is they have on him must be good enough to keep his darn mouth shut! I would be on the court house steps screaming 24/7 if someone even dare suggest I “voluntarily” leave my family if I really had done nothing wrong!!!!
Good luck Blinkette!!!!
Volunteers will meet tonight at the old command post in the Office Max parking lot near Broadway and Craycroft at 7 p.m. to “paper the streets.”
Okay. I am offically sick and tired of this nonsense. Are they going to pick up all those pieces of paper after they blow all over the streets once the staples come loose on all the telephone poles they plaster? This “papering of the streets” is totally unneccesary; Isa’s picture is seen on huge banners, bill boards, nearly every merchant cash register at check-out in this vast city. This effort is nothing more than more of the same: marketing of a tragegy. One question remains for me: exactly HOW is this a strategy for finding this little girl?
I have a very strong opinion that these parents need to STOP this hood-winking of our community here. If they want to do something REAL–like search the washes, parks, highway underpasses, alleys–fine, then let’s get going. I see NO effort WHATSOEVER in those regards.
@melissab
Ty.
The sunglasses make sense; probably cry a lot. And lots of men, in from the sun, don’t take them off.
BC’s high strung look is that of a hundred pta moms I’ve co-volunteered with.
She’s planning, assessing, frazzled, worried, and probably a bossy boots.
She has a right to be.
Remember to purple card the spectators if its lax.
LOL LOL Soccer, and they won the District Championship in overtime. Everyone behaved, sorry for the O/T.
B
@Word Girl says:
May 24, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Blink, you’re probably all over this but:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/person_in_custody_in_patz_disappearance_eEcUgDAqlekvwMV0B4QMyJ#ixzz1vmfks0LE
Etan Patz arrest
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I hope he’s not another John Mark Karr (JBR case) and leads authorities to his remains.
@pueblodweller says:
Regarding the parents participating in actual searches, I would bet LE has instructed them to not do this. I’m sure they could help out at a command post, coordinating, preparing supplies, etc. but LE would not want either parent to find evidence as it could “taint” the investigation and chain of custody. MOO.
I would love to know where the uncle is right now and if he slept at the home that night or if he had a key and was allowed to come and go as he pleased.
Prayers for Isa.
Mark Klass has always told the family to do everything they can to turn the search from the family to the perpetrator.
This time I do believe Mark sees Sergio as guilty and it getting his message out.
Too many things have happened for Sergio to be innocent.
Honestly I think he took her somewhere and he is not telling where she is.
Don’t open door number two!
Blink are you covering Michaela “Mickey” Shunick?
http://www.collegenews.com/article/michaela_mickey_shunick_still_missing
Pueblo, I agree. Papering has already been done. Let’s see them out looking, talking to everyone they can and getting suspicion off of them and out in the open.
I’m sorry, but I’m pretty frustrated with these folks.
LaurieO,
I agree that many men react to disturbing news in a different way than women. The men in my life don’t seem to get as ruffled about things and are less likely to assume the worst case scenario. (Kinda like your Dad doubting that you might have diabetes).
But Sergio’s reaction seems so different than what I’m used to with my calm, male family members (who are also first generation americans of spanish descent). What’s missing in his calm, cool, collected exterior is the shroud of worry. When that emotion is there, you can see it — it’s hard to miss.
I would use that “voluntarily” word loosely. If my daughter is missing and I’m told If I “voluntarily” leave then my 2 boys can stay with their mother.If I don’t “voluntarily” leave then child protective services will step in and place the boys in foster care, I might “voluntarily” agree to the separation also.
This case is insane.After I listened to the 911 call and read about the separation,I was positive that Sergio was involved in Isabel’s dissapearence. But then Becky continued to defend Sergio and talk about what an amazing father and husband he is. Why would she do that unless she believes with all her heart he is innocent.It makes me question my assumptions based on Sergio’s demeanor. Maybe that is just the way he is, dry, socially challenged,emotionally numb,ect.What if he has nothing to do with his daughter’s disappearence, and he has lost his wife and boys too. The police are starting over, putting out surveys, looking @ sex offenders. They don’t seem to have any clue what happened.It is very sad. Isabel is in my prayers, and I think about her daily. I hope they find her soon.
“New documents released in Celis case”
Posted: May 24, 2012 6:41 PM
TUCSON -Tucson Police released hundreds of pages of reports from the case of missing 6-year-old Isabel Celis.
The 500 pages include interviews and other details starting from the day Isabel disappeared April 20th.
News 4 Tucson is pouring over the reports and will have more on the new developments tonight at 10:00 p.m.
http://www.kvoa.com/news/new-documents-released-in-celis-case/
Blink,
I’ve often wondered what kind of impact this blog has, Until today.
When Isa went missing, my daughter who is 19 started to get involved and ask questions about her case. She watched the press conferences with me and read all you wrote about her. I was able to teach her what I have learned to date and show her just how many cases of missing people/children there are.
Without going into too many details , I’d like to tell you that she was able to escape an attack at the mall parking lot , by a man who followed her to her car, became very angry when she refused him money,
and was able to protect herself once he opened the car door to try to get at her.
After notifying LE and then driving herself to my house, she broke down in tremendous fear of what could have been. She said, “mom, all I could think of , was not to let him get me out of my car, I didn’t want him to kill me”. Later she talked about having learned from me about her *radar* and quick thinking she was able to cause enough of a stir and noise, that he finally gave up , threw some items at her and left.
She is ok, couple of cuts, mentally traumatized right now and trusts NO-ONE now.
With tears in my eyes as I write this, I’d just like to say, Thank you! Thank you for having this blog, Thank you for teaching, and Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this, because today, I got to see how my reading and blogging here, truly does matter.
Kimberly
1. I thank God your daughter is safe. The rest will heal, but she is safe.
2. I don’t even know how to respond to your thanks and praise. Except to say that was the goal of my work, and I appreciate you sharing.
B