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#1 Dan

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Posted 19 May 2007 - 05:23 PM

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Age-progressed to 11 years

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Sofia Lucerno Juarez

DOB: Feb 5, 1998
Missing: Feb 4, 2003
Age Now: 8
Sex: Female
Race: Biracial [Hispanic,White]
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height: 3'0" (91 cm)
Weight: 33 lbs (15 kg)
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Kennewick ,Washington
United States

Sofia's photo is shown age-progressed to 11 years. She was last known to be playing in her bedroom. At approximately 8 p.m. on February 4, 2003 she walked out of the bedroom and has not been seen or heard from since. Sofia has a mole under her left eye and at the time she disappeared her four top front teeth were missing. She has pierced ears and a birthmark on her lower back. Sofia was last seen wearing blue overalls, a red shirt, violet socks and white shoes.

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Posted 19 May 2007 - 05:24 PM

Originally posted on 11/08/06
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Sofia Juarez will be featured on the television program "Missing" Episode M-415.

Visit USA Missing Homepage

The show will air the week of November 6, 2006, and in most areas, is shown on the following weekend.

Please check out which station airs the program in your area by visiting the following link.

Links to TV Stations airing "Missing"

Then check out the station's site (provided in the above link) for the exact day and time the show airs.

All the following adults and children will be featured on this episode.

Harold Hensley, Amber Hoopes, Mario Cabral, Jeromy Childress, Michelle Henri, David Allen, Amber Spain, Dawron Richardson, Erica Sanchez, Lindsey Porter, Samuel Porter, Christopher Pierce, Mae Rocker, Alexis Patterson, Samantha Bolonos Lopez, Sara Bolonos Lopez, Sofia Juarez, George Zelaya, Yoni Hernandez, Nathan Currie, Melina Martin, Robert Vance, Daniel Yuen, Linda Runningbear, Kiplyn Davis, William "Mike" Hogan.


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Posted 20 May 2007 - 07:55 AM

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Skull cannot be identified

By Amy Cannata
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May 17, 2007

Investigators cannot extract DNA from a child's skull found last August in an Adams County farm field so authorities may never be able to determine the victim's identity.

Attempts to collect DNA have all been fruitless. The FBI Lab in Quantico, Virg., has been unsuccessful in multiple efforts. Race and sex of the child are also unclear.

Two factors contributed to the DNA extraction failure. A grass fire and exposure to extreme heat and cold damaged the skull. Another issue is the age of the child which means the bone is thinner than that of an adult, reducing the amount of DNA that could be inside.

"We understand the reasons why, but it is frustrating," said Adams County Sheriff Doug Barger.

A farmer's grandson found bone fragments on the field within sight of Highway 395 on Aug. 12, 2006. Investigators didn't find any other remains during a subsequent 100-acre search.

Leads at this point have run dry, said Barger. Carbon dating could rule out the possibility of it being an ancient skull, more than 200 years old, but Barger said he believes it's modern.

Some speculated at the time that the skull could belong to one of two missing Eastern Washington children.

Eleven-year-old Cody Haynes was at first considered a runaway when he left his Kittitas home in September, 2004, but could be the victim of foul play.

Also missing is Sofia Juarez, 5, of Kennewick. Juarez disappeared in February 2003 when she went to a neighborhood store to buy candy.

The two are the only known missing children in Eastern Washington, said Barger.

He said the FBI will keep a skull sample in case DNA technology improves at a later date, making identification possible. "We're going to stay hopeful that something develops in the future."

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Community won't give up searching for Sofia

Published Tuesday, July 24th, 2007


The nightmare began a little over four years ago.

Little Sofia Juarez of Kennewick went for a walk and never returned. What happened to her is a mystery.

As the agonizing days immediately following her disappearance turned into heartsick months, her family has not given up hope of finding her.

Neither has the Tri-City community. 

A renewed effort has begun to locate the girl who would now be 9 years old.

Posters of what she looked like when she disappeared and what she may look like today have been put on the sides of several semi-trucks owned by Gordon Trucking, a family-owned business based in Pacific committed to reuniting missing children with their families.

Under her photos is a phone number people can call if they've seen the girl. The idea is to have as many people as possible see Sofia's picture in the hope it could spark the one important tip that would lead to finding her.

Kennewick police say her case continues to be investigated as a missing and endangered child, and detectives continue to receive tips about it.

In fact, police say they have gotten about 850 tips since the little girl went missing, some from as far away as Louisiana, Texas, Minnesota, California, New Mexico, Arizona and elsewhere.

Yet the search continues.

The new posters of Sofia displayed on the semi-trucks are part of a two-year-old program called Operation Homeward Bound. It is coordinated by the Washington State Patrol, but wouldn't happen without the help of businesses that include Gordon Trucking, the graphics company IMAGIC of California and Budget Auto Wrecking of Kent, all of which have donated time, services and money.

Losing a child is among a parent's worst fears. Sofia was 5 years old when she asked permission to join another household member for a trip to the convenience store. She left so shortly after he did, it was assumed she would catch up to him. But when he returned, he said he never saw her.

Within hours, Kennewick police, the Washington State Patrol and officers from around the Tri-Cities began looking for the girl. Divers searched the Columbia River and a helicopter with a thermal-imaging camera from the Washington Army National Guard was brought in to help.

They never found a trace.

Of course, her family will never give up believing they might one day be reunited with Sofia. It is a sign of a caring community that the Tri-Cities continues to keep that hope alive.

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Posted 16 February 2008 - 12:43 PM

Little Sophia has now been missing for 5 years.  Our thoughts and prayers are with her family.

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Posted 16 January 2009 - 07:25 AM

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MISSING: Candlelight walk to honor missing Kennewick girl, mother


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Maria Juarez wipes away tears in early February 2003 as she talks about the disappearance of her daughter, Sofia, while sitting in the bedroom they shared of a Kennewick home. Maria Juarez died Jan. 10 in Sacramento, CA.

Kennewick- A candlelight walk is being planned in remembrance of a Kennewick girl missing for nearly six years and her mother who died last week.

The walk will start at 5 p.m. tomorrow at the corner of 15th Avenue and Washington Street, which is roughly the spot where little Sofia Juarez disappeared. It will end at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 520 S. Garfield St.

Sofia, who will be 11 next month, hasn’t been seen since Feb. 4, 2003, the day before her fifth birthday.

Her mother, Maria Juarez, died in California from some sort of medical complications, a family friend said. She was 26.

The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office said Juarez died on Jan. 10, but the cause of death is still under investigation. An autopsy has already been performed.

“This is some way to say that even though she’s not here with us, but the family and the community is still waiting for Sofia and hoping the police will bring the people back and find out where she is,” said Edith Fox, a family friend planning the candlelight walk.

About 50 friends and family are expected to gather tomorrow. Community members are also invited to attend, Fox said.

Juarez moved to Sacramento about a year ago and had a baby boy six months ago, Fox said.

“Like any mother who lost a girl or part of the family, she’s been hoping,” Fox said.  “She never lost the interest or her hope that her daughter will be found sooner or later.”

Kennewick police Detective Craig Hanson, the lead investigator on Sofia’s case, said Juarez’s death doesn’t change the investigation.

“We still have a missing child and we can’t account for her whereabouts,” Hanson said.  “We have to continue to keep our ear to the ground, listening to information that’s viable.”
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Posted 16 January 2009 - 08:11 AM

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Ashes of missing Kennewick girl's mom to be scattered

By Paula Horton, Herald staff writer

KENNEWICK -- Tonight, the mother of a Kennewick girl missing for nearly six years will be at the spot where her daughter disappeared one last time.

Maria Juarez's ashes will be escorted from the corner of 15th Avenue and Washington Street, where little Sofia Juarez was last seen, to St. Joseph's Catholic Church, where she'll be remembered at a funeral Mass.

The candlelight walk starts at 5 p.m.

"We just want to do it so that the community knows even through she's passed away we still have to hope to find Sofia, and we're still going to be looking for Sofia," said Alma Juarez, Maria's sister and Sofia's aunt.

Sofia, who would be 11 next month, disappeared Feb. 4, 2003, the day before her fifth birthday.

Community members are invited to join about 50 friends and relatives in the candlelight walk to the church at 520 Garfield St.

Her 26-year-old mother died Jan. 10 in Sacramento from medical complications, her family said.

An autopsy was performed, but the cause of death is still under investigation, according to the Sacramento County Coroner's Office.

Juarez moved to Sacramento about a year ago. Six months ago she had a baby boy, Rances Ricardo Barlandas, Alma Juarez said.

Although Juarez had moved away and started a new life, she never forgot about her daughter.

"Like any mother who lost a girl or part of the family, she's been hoping," said Edith Fox, Juarez's aunt. "She never lost the interest or her hope that her daughter will be found sooner or later."

Kennewick police also have not lost hope as they continue to actively investigate the case.

Detective Craig Hanson, the lead investigator on Sofia's case, said Maria Juarez's death doesn't change the investigation.

"We still have a missing child and we can't account for her whereabouts," Hanson said. "... We have to continue to keep our ear to the ground, listening to information that's viable."

At the time Sofia went missing, Maria and the girl had lived with Maria's mom on East 15th Avenue for two years. They shared the home with Maria's six siblings and her mom's boyfriend.

The last time Sofia was seen, she reportedly was given a dollar and permission to go to a convenience store with an adult who lived in the house. When the adult returned about 45 minutes later, he told Sofia's grandmother that he hadn't seen her.

Over the years, investigators have tracked hundreds of leads from all over the country and into Mexico. Sofia's story has aired on America's Most Wanted, and her picture was on a car during a NASCAR race, several semi-trucks and even an electronic billboard in New York City's Times Square.

She was the subject of the state's first Amber Alert and is also one of 69 children from Washington listed with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Hanson said he still continues to get tips about Sofia's disappearance, but most of them have been reported repeatedly. One common one is that Sofia was killed, her body was dumped in the hills and then moved several times so it wouldn't be found, he said.

Detectives have also investigated theories that Sofia was abducted by someone she knew and is living in Mexico, and that she was taken by a stranger and either killed or is being held against her will.

Investigators have found no evidence to substantiate any of those tips.

It took just one word to describe how Hanson feels about not being able to close the case after nearly six years: "Frustrating."

Hanson also said it was unfortunate that they'll never be able to tell Juarez they found her daughter.

"It's unfortunate that (Maria Juarez) died at such a young age," he said. "I know in previous contacts, she always showed interest in knowing what's going on and it was always encouraging to me that it wasn't forgotten by her by any means."

Alma Juarez said waiting and not knowing has taken a toll on the whole family.

"It's so hard. We are still in hope that we can find her," the Kennewick woman said. "We just hope that with the news of Maria passing away, whoever has Sofia will have a little heart and let us know where she's at. That way Maria can know her daughter's OK and rest in peace."

Anyone with information about Sofia can call Kennewick police at 628-0333, Tri-Cities Crime Stoppers at 586-8477 or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 800-843-5678.



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Posted 04 February 2010 - 04:53 PM

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4-year-old Kennewick girl missing 7 years
By JOHN TRUMBO
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02/04/2010

KENNEWICK, Wash. -- Every customer who climbs the steps to enter Art Carpenter's Hardware on Columbia Drive comes face to face with a tattered and torn poster showing the smiling face of Sofia Juarez.

The words "Endangered" and "Missing" have framed the black and white photograph for seven years.

Gary Carpenter, who owns the Kennewick business started by his father, said the stained and sun-bleached poster featuring a cherub-faced child will stay put until the mystery of Sofia's disappearance on Feb. 4, 2003, is solved.

Sofia was one day short of her fifth birthday when she apparently was abducted that evening while walking a few blocks to a grocery store from her family home off Washington Street at 15th Avenue.

The missing girl case mobilized hundreds of volunteers who searched widely throughout Kennewick in following days.

Walking shoulder to shoulder, people scanned fields, in canals, under bridges, even peering behind skirts of mobile homes and in garbage cans, hoping to find her or at least a clue.

But Sofia's disappearance was a complete vanishing.

Posters, like the one Carpenter keeps in plain sight, were distributed widely. The girl's picture and story found publicity through the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and were displayed on a race car on TV, on several semi-trucks and even an electronic billboard in New York City's Times Square.

But the best efforts of Kennewick police, aided by FBI agents and seasoned missing persons investigators brought in from as far away as Arizona, couldn't find Sofia.

Kennewick's detective Wes Gardner is the latest detective to be assigned to the cold case that Carpenter can't forget.

"It's frustrating. We get calls and tips. But they are pretty much what we've already heard," said Gardner, who has been plowing through "a mountain of paperwork" on the case since April.

"I'm looking at everything with a fresh mind," said Gardner. He's revisited key witnesses too, including the girl's grandmother and sister.

Sofia's 26-year-old mother died a year ago of medical complications in California.

Gardner said with not much of anything new to go on, the investigation has to rely on what others have done before him. Maybe, he said, he will see some hidden clues buried in those thousands of investigative reports that will help solve the mystery.

But more likely, Sofia's disappearance won't be explained until someone who was involved breaks the long silence.

"It'll have to come from someone close to what happened. We need to have that person," Gardner said.

The detective said Sofia's closest relatives want the mystery solved.

"They are totally ready and want closure on this," he said.

Even after all these years, posters of the smiling girl, missing four upper teeth, with a straw hat perched on her head, pique public interest.

"I talked to a lady a couple of weeks ago who had seen a poster of Sofia. It jogged her memory," Gardner said.

Unfortunately, the woman shared information Gardner had heard before.

There are various Sofia legends: that her body was buried near Jump-off Joe or in a field near Finley, that someone kidnapped her and took her to a relative in Mexico, or that a van of nondescript color stopped on Washington Street so someone could pull the girl inside and sped off, never to be seen again.

"We really don't have it locked down what really happened. Technically it is a missing person case," Gardner said.

Carpenter said customers notice Sofia's poster and comment about it about twice a week.

Gardner said two possibilities are that Sofia's abduction was a crime of opportunity or it was premeditated. But it does not appear to be a serial abduction, he said.

"My hope is whoever abducted her did it for some other reason (than to harm her)," Gardner said.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children still has Sofia listed on its Web site.

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Posted 05 February 2010 - 05:39 AM

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Sofia Juarez missing for 7 years

Posted: Feb 4, 2010 08:27 PM  Updated: Feb 4, 2010 08:33 PM

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KENNEWICK, Wash--  Friday would mark Sofia Juarez's 12th birthday.  But instead of celebrating, the past 7 years have been spent searching.

"It's been very frustrating when we don't know originally what happened to Sofia," officer Craig Hanson told us back in 2007.  "We've had various accounts come in through the last nearly 4 years of what's happened to her.  They've ranged from familial abductions to stranger abductions and so on."

But nothing has ever lead investigators to find her.

"We've been praying every day for her to come back because it's been a long time," her uncle Eduardo echoed back in 2003.

In the years since her disappearance, the community has knocked on doors, passed out flyers and posted signs on trucks.  But it's never lead to any answers.

Then a year ago, the family lost Sofia's mother, Maria, to health problems.

"She passed away not knowing whatever happened to her daughter," Juan told us.  "And that's really tough for us, letting her go without seeing her daughter one more time."

It has been a hunt for a little girl that's left the city hoping for new information.

"The case has not progressed much since last year," explains Detective Sergeant Mark Weber.  "We continue to get leads periodically and we look at each one of those objectively and see if there's anything new we can use.  But basically, there hasn't been a change in the status of the investigation."

It should be a middle schoolers excitement for tomorrow's big day.  Instead, we're left asking where are you?

"We have no reason to think Sofia is not alive," Weber adds.  "We want to stay optimistic and treat this as it is--as a missing persons case."

If you have any information on the Sofia Juarez, you're asked to call the lead detective on the case, Detective Wes Gardner.  He can be reached at 509-582-1330.



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Posted 11 February 2010 - 07:06 AM

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Sofia: 4-year-old Kennewick girl missing 7 years

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KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) - It's been seven years since 4-year-old Sofia Juarez disappeared while walking to a grocery store from her family home in Kennewick.

Widespread searches failed to turn up any sign of the girl.

A tattered poster showing the girl's face still hangs in Art Carpenter's Hardware store and customers still talk about her.

The Tri-City Herald reports Detective Wes Gardner is the latest officer assigned to the cold case. He's been plowing through paperwork and revisiting witnesses but says there's not much new to go on.

The detective says Sofia's closest relatives want the mystery solved.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children still has Sofia listed on its Web site.

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Posted 04 February 2011 - 06:00 AM

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8 years later, case of missing Sofia remains cold

By Paula Horton, Herald staff writer Published: 02/04/11 1:34 am | Updated: 02/04/11 3:59 am

KENNEWICK — Four-year-old girls don't walk away and never come back.

That's why Kennewick police Detective Sgt. Randy Maynard believes someone knows what happened eight years ago today when Sofia Juarez vanished the day before her fifth birthday.

Sofia, who would be 13 Saturday, left the safety of her Kennewick bedroom, got a dollar from her mother and set off to follow an adult in the house who was going to a nearby store.

Her mother put Sofia's white Converse shoes on over her violet socks, heard the door shut and never saw her young daughter again. Sofia's mother, Maria, died two years ago in Sacramento from medical complications.

Police were called after the family realized she was missing, and a massive search was launched for the little girl with the big smile who was last seen wearing blue overalls and a red, long-sleeved shirt.

Since Feb. 4, 2003, Sofia's story and her picture have been almost everywhere -- featured on TV on America's Most Wanted, on the side of a NASCAR race car, in Times Square and on four semi-trucks traveling across the country.

Police have spent thousands of investigative hours combing through reports, tracking down leads and searching for something to bring a close to the case.

"My gut is that she's alive," said Maynard, who was the patrol sergeant on duty the night Sofia went missing. "If she's deceased, we'd have found her remains. Maybe that's hanging onto hope, I don't know."

In the first 45 days, the entire police force was working on the case, and help also came from other law enforcement agencies, volunteers and other resources from the Tri-Cities and across the nation.

Sofia was the subject of the state's first Amber Alert, and she still is one of 70 children from Washington who are listed with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

During the past eight years, there have been at least four detectives assigned as lead detective on the case.

The latest is Detective Wes Gardner, who has been poring through "thousands and thousands and thousands" of report pages for the past 18 months.

Gardner hopes that looking at the case with a fresh set of eyes will help him see something that will lead to an answer.

"Every spare moment you get you try to read," Gardner said. "You look at everything that's been done or needs to be done different.

"So far I haven't found anything glaring that needs to be done different or wasn't done," he added.

Sofia is listed as a missing and endangered child, and by technical terms, it's not considered an active case anymore, Maynard said.

"But we consider it an active case because we hold it so close to us," Maynard added. "We almost have a personal interest in it."

Through the years, tips have poured in around the country and Mexico. Many have been rumors or "urban legends," as Maynard calls them, about what happened to Sofia.

Investigators have chased leads that said Sofia was abducted by someone she knows and is living in Mexico, or that she was taken by a stranger and killed or is being held against her will, and that she was accidentally hit by a van and then buried south of Kennewick near Hover Park or Jump-off Joe.

Gardner said he has seen nothing in the reports that indicates one way or another whether Sofia most likely is dead or alive and well.

Tips still come in -- though not as frequently -- and they sometimes come in waves with news reports that come around the anniversary of her disappearance or when inmates in jail think they know something and try to make a deal.

Most of the tips are some variation of ones that detectives already have chased, but they still "run it to the ground just like any tip we get," Maynard said.

Advancement of technology and social media networks also might help investigators find some new clue.

For instance, Gardner said he recently received a tip from someone who found a Sofia Juarez on Facebook who is living in Long Beach, Calif., and who would be about the right age.

He's waiting for the Long Beach Police Department's missing person unit to help check out that tip.

Working a cold case that has had no developments is challenging, and Gardner still has an active case load that gets added to every day.

"It's frustrating," Gardner admits, "because I want to solve it."

Asked if there ever will be a time when investigators stop working on Sofia's case, Maynard's answer is simple and final:

"When we find her."

Anonymous tips can be made to Tri-Cities Crime Stoppers at 586-8477 or visit www.tricities crimestoppers.org.




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Posted 27 January 2012 - 10:27 AM

Kennewick police haunted by missing girl

BY PAULA HORTON, TRI-CITY HERALD
Published: 01/27/12 1:43 am | Updated: 01/27/12 1:43 am
 
Eighty-six kids missing from Washington are listed on a national missing children's website.

The first picture that shows up -- of 8-year-old David William Adams -- also is the oldest. He has been missing from Issaquah since May 3, 1968, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Sofia Juarez's smiling face also is on that site. And even though it's been nearly nine years since the 4-year-old vanished in Kennewick, she has not been forgotten.

"We keep hope that she's still alive," said Kennewick police Sgt. Ken Lattin. "We keep hope that we'll find her."

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Posted 27 January 2012 - 10:28 AM

9 years since 4-year-old Kennewick disappeared
On Feb. 4 it will be nine years since 4-year-old Sofia Juarez disappeared in Kennewick.


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KENNEWICK, Wash. — On Feb. 4 it will be nine years since 4-year-old Sofia Juarez disappeared in Kennewick.

Police believe she was abducted. There was an Amber alert. Officers searched homes, questioned more than a 1,000 people and chased tips from around the country and Mexico.

The Tri-City Herald reports ( http://is.gd/llvwCp) Sofia was featured on "America's Most Wanted," and her face appeared on a NASCAR race car and on semi-trucks across the nation's highways.

Sgt. Ken Lattin says investigators are frustrated they have no solid leads, but they're not giving up hope of finding her.

Lattin says Sofia is a young teenager now and might start asking questions about her past or where she lived when she was younger.

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#14 Shannon

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Posted 08 February 2013 - 08:46 PM

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10 -year-anniversary of disappearance: Kennewick police still seek information on missing girl

Published: February 4, 2013

By Dori O'Neal

It's been 10 years since 4-year-old Sofia Juarez disappeared from her Kennewick home on Feb. 4, 2003, the day before her fifth birthday.

Police say nothing new has been discovered in the case, and they are no closer to finding out what happened to her, said Sgt. Ken Lattin of the Kennewick Police Department.

If Sofia still is alive, she will turn 15 years old Tuesday.

She was last seen leaving her Kennewick home with a dollar in her pocket to follow a family friend to a nearby store. But the friend was unaware Sofia was following him, and she never made it to the store.

During the past decade, Kennewick police have not given up trying to solve the mystery surrounding her disappearance, despite a plethora of dead-end tips.

"There have been all sorts of urban legends about what happened to Sofia," Lattin said.

Some of those reports included that she was abducted by someone she knows and is living in Mexico. Another tip was that she was taken by a stranger and murdered, or is being held somewhere against her will.

Another rumor indicated that she accidentally was hit by a van, then buried south of Kennewick near Hover Park in Finley or Jump Off Joe, a hill south of Kennewick.

"There was no credibility to any of those myths," Lattin said.

But for those detectives who worked the case from the start, the day Sofia went missing is one they never will forget.

"Somebody out there knows something about what happened to Sofia and hasn't shared it with us yet. Technology changes all the time and helps solve cold cases like this. So we aren't giving up," Lattin said.

A new lead detective is assigned to the case every few years so it can be looked at again with a fresh pair of eyes, he added.

The advancement of social media also entered the investigation a couple of years ago when detectives got a tip that a Sofia Juarez was on Facebook and living in Long Beach, Calif. But that tip was unfounded, and the case stalled again.

Sofia was the subject of Washington's first Amber Alert. Since her disappearance, her picture has been featured on the TV series America's Most Wanted, the side of a NASCAR race car, in Times Square and on the side of a fleet of semis that travel back and forth across the country.

She is one of 76 children from Washington who are listed with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Sofia's family moved back to California a few years after her disappearance, and her mother Maria died four years ago in Sacramento from medical complications.

Sofia has black hair and brown eyes, a mole under her left eye and a birthmark on her lower back. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Kennewick police at 509-585-4208 or 509-628-0333.

"We're always looking for new leads in this case," Lattin said. "We won't give up."
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