Paulino Orea Rodriguez was 33 when he was last seen near Douglas in Cochise County, Arizona, on December 3, 2009. Reports say he was in the process of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border when he disappeared; the exact circumstances of that crossing are not known.

He was described as between 5 feet 3 inches and 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing 135 to 155 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He had a tattoo of the face of Jesus on his left pectoral and an image of Santa Muerte on his right shoulder blade. On the day he went missing he wore a black shirt, blue jeans, a blue jean jacket with Hard Rock Cafe in yellow letters on the back, a black belt, grey Nike tennis shoes, and carried a grey backpack bearing images of the Virgen de Guadalupe and Christ Resurrected, plus a hat.

The Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner is listed as the investigating agency; no documented resolution is available. If anyone has information about Paulino’s movements around Douglas on or after December 3, 2009, please come forward.