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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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Isabel Calvo Palacios










Palacios, date, approximate 2015; Gregory Parks
Date Missing 07/31/2015
Missing From
Wilson, North Carolina
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
Hispanic
Age 20 years old
Height and Weight 5'2, 100 - 110 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description White Nike shoes. Carrying a black purse with a black bow.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic female. Red hair, brown eyes. Palacios's nickname is Chaveli. She has a tattoo of the words "Crazy Mexican" on her abdomen and a tattoo of a cherry elsewhere on her body. Her ears are pierced.
Details of Disappearance Palacios was last seen at Gregory Kent Parks's home on Ward Boulevard on Wilson, North Carolina in the early morning hours of July 31, 2015. A friend of hers, Ronald Thomas Parker, went to the home to see Palacios between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m. Palacios asked him to leave and come back later. She called him and invited him back to Parks's house between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m. He went there and noticed that Parks and Palacios had been smoking crack cocaine.
Parker spent some time at the residence, then left. At 2:46 p.m. that day, he got a call from Palacios's cellular phone and when he answered, he heard her screaming "Help me, help me, he's hurting me." He heard a voice in the background saying, "We're just playing. She's okay."
When investigators arrived, they searched the residence but couldn't find Palacios. They conducted a welfare check in Parks's home later that day and still couldn't find her. Parker never saw or heard from Palacios against; neither did anyone else.
A photo of Parks is posted with this summary. He has an extensive criminal record with convictions ranging from manslaughter to attempted rape, and has been arrested over 100 times since 1983. Parks claimed Palacios spent the night at his home and the next day she left her vehicle at his home because she couldn't find her car keys.
When police executed a search warrant at his residence on August 4, they found Palacios's blood in several places inside, including on a lamp, a bath mat, a candlestick, the master bedroom's wall and doorway, and the deadbolt lock of that bedroom's door. There was a large bloodstain, about a foot in diameter, on some carpet padding that had been thrown in the trash. There was enough blood that Palacios would have required medical attention to survive.
Three weeks after Palacios disappeared, Parks was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in her . Investigators believe Parks beat her to death after she refused his sexual advances. He maintained his innocence, but was convicted in November 2017 and sentenced to life in prison. In 2019, he was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape in the 1984 death of a thirteen-year-old girl, Marsha Anita Whitted.
Palacios left behind a young daughter; her mother doesn't believe she would have abandoned the child. Foul play is suspected in her due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Wilson Police Department
252-399-2323
Other
Eyewitness 11 News
CBS North Carolina
NamUs
WRAL
The Greenville Daily Reflector
The Wilson Times
North Carolina Arrests

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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 Case Updates with Photos