Isabel Celis
Six-year-old Isabel Celis went missing from her bedroom in her family’s midtown home in 2012. It was during the night, while the family slept. No one heard sounds, not even from the family’s dogs. Her father, Sergio, reported her missing on the morning of April 21, 2012. Her mother had already left for work.
Sergio said he and his sons searched the house before calling 911. In a 911 recording, Sergio tells a dispatcher that “my oldest son noticed that her window was wide open and the screen was laying in the backyard.”
Her disappearance resulted in a missing child case that involved a massive search in Tucson by 250 law enforcement personnel, national media attention and public scrutiny of her parents. FBI experts and tracking dogs were called into the case. Detectives followed up on more than 2,200 leads in the case.
Five years after her disappearance in 2017, her remains were found in rural Pima County. On Oct. 24, Pima Couty medical examiners officially ruled the girl's death a homicide.
