Missing Person Photos
A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe.
By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends.
A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.
Resources for Missing Persons
According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day.
Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends.
Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.
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Ermelinda Angelica Alvarado
Alvarado, date, approximate 2019
Date Missing 04/10/2019
Missing From
Merced, California
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
Hispanic
Date of Birth 09/15/1985 (37)
Age 33 years old
Height and Weight 5'6, 110 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A black hooded sweatshirt, black pants and pink and black Nike sneakers.
Medical Conditions Alvarado has struggled with an addiction to Vicodin, a prescription pain medication. She spent a few days in a rehabilitation center weeks before she went missing.
Associated Vehicle(s) Rented red Hyundai Elantra (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Alvarado's ears are pierced. She has braces on her teeth. Her nickname is Erma.
Details of Disappearance Alvarado was last seen in Merced, California on April 10, 2019. She had rented a red Hyundai Elantra while her husband was on a business trip to Texas.
At 2:25 a.m., she called her sister and said she was driving to Florida to visit their brother. A few minutes later, she called her husband and said she wanted to drive to Texas to be with him. He told her to go back home and pick him up at the airport when he arrived home. At 9:37 a.m., she posted a video on one of her social media accounts; it showed her alone in the desert near Blythe, California.
Her sister kept trying to call her, and later that morning Alvarado finally answered. She said she'd been in a car accident and two men had tried to take her car and keys and she had had to run for her life. Almost three hours later, she answered a call from her brother-in-law and said a friend had picked her up and they were en route to Los Angeles, California. This is the last time anyone spoke to her.
Alvarado was supposed to pick her husband up at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport when he returned from Texas, but she wasn't there when he arrived. She has never been heard from again.
On April 11, the rented Hyundai was found abandoned off eastbound Interstate 10 in a remote desert area between the towns of Blythe and Indio, California, near the Arizona border. Alvarado's purse, identification, cash and credit cards were inside it, but her cellular phone were missing. Her family has taken numerous trips to search the desert in Riverside County where the car was found. In one of their searches, they found Alvarado's shoes, but no other sign of her. Police stated the area was frequented by drug mules.
Alvarado has eight children between 6 and 23; five of them are her biological children, and she adopted the other three. It's uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning or not be in touch with her family by phone, text or social media. Her remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Merced Police Department
209-385-6912
Other
California Attorney General's Office
Facebook Page for Ermelinda Alvarado
Ermelinda Alvarado's Facebook Page
Ermelinda Alvarado Husband's Facebook Page
We Help The Missing
The Merced Sun-Star
Your Central Valley
KMPH Fox 26
Missing Person Photos
A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe.
By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends.
A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.
Resources for Missing Persons
According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day.
Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends.
Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.
Missing Person Photos
