Yakelin Llanes, 29, was reported missing from Miami on August 28, 1999, along with her two sons, Jonathan and Mario Mordoche. They were last seen preparing to drive to Tampa to visit the boys’ father in a rented brown 1999 Chevrolet Malibu, Florida plate GH830M. The family never arrived in Tampa and were reported missing about two weeks after that last sighting.

Investigators found little in the apartment to show trip preparations; Yakelin’s toothbrush remained at home. That absence of usual travel items has led some to speculate the vehicle might have ended up submerged in one of the area’s canals, a theory that persists in discussions of the case. The disappearance remains open and unsolved.

Anyone with information about Yakelin, Jonathan, Mario, or the brown 1999 Chevrolet Malibu is asked to contact the Miami-Dade County Police Department.