Genoveba Ortega Alvarez, 29, was last seen on New Year’s Eve 2016 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, driving a gray 2011 Hyundai. Family reported she left home intoxicated that evening, which they said was out of character because she was close with loved ones. Described as Hispanic with brown hair and brown eyes, she stood between 5 feet 1 inch and 5 feet 5 inches and weighed about 170 pounds; she had tattoos on both arms, including a clown face on her left forearm. When last seen she reportedly wore a white sweater, a black blouse, and black pants.

On January 1, 2017, the Hyundai was found abandoned in a ravine off Bust Head Road near The Plains in Fauquier County, about an hour and a half from her Rockingham County home. The vehicle looked like it had been in a single-car crash; her wallet and ATM receipts were inside. A call from her phone to the Rockingham County Health Department around 8:30 a.m. on January 1 is the last known phone activity; the phone has not been used since. Tracking dogs searched the wooded area and investigators identified a person of interest described as a Hispanic male believed to be named Ceasar, who may use the alias Pepe.

If anyone has information about Genoveba’s movements that night, the people she knew, or the man known as Ceasar or Pepe, please come forward.