Guadalupe Barajas Castro was 23 and eight and a half months pregnant when she disappeared from Longview, Washington on November 26, 2001. She left on a shopping trip for baby clothes with her three-year-old daughter and her estranged husband, Gregario Arias Ibal, a day that was described as hopeful because the couple had been living apart but were reportedly considering reconciliation. She left all her personal belongings behind and was never seen or heard from again.

The Jeep Cherokee they were traveling in was later found at the home of one of Gregario’s relatives in Kerman, California; Gregario reportedly left the car there and left a message, but Guadalupe and the child were not with it. An anonymous tip once claimed Guadalupe was ill in Arizona, but that lead produced no concrete information. In 2020 authorities located the daughter and Gregario living in Mexico near Guadalajara and confirmed the daughter’s identity by DNA; there was still no sign of Guadalupe.

What information might help explain where Guadalupe went that day or why she never returned?