Viridiana Maldonado was 21 and living in North Charleston, South Carolina, with her two young children, her mother and her sister when she vanished after work on October 11, 2007. She finished a shift at La Nortena restaurant on Rivers Avenue, arrived home between 10:30 and 11:00 p.m., changed her shirt and told family she was going out with her sister-in-law. That was the last time anyone saw her.

Text messages sent from Viridiana’s phone afterward said she was with a man named Miguel and planned to return to Mexico; family said those messages were out of character and she would not have left her children. Her sister-in-law denied seeing her that night. Six days later someone closed Viridiana’s bank account by phone and a cashier’s check for about $1,000 was sent to Tacoma, Washington, where her estranged husband Jorge Maldonado lived. Cell records showed Jorge closed the account and had traveled to Charleston days before she vanished; he spoke with her and their son the night before. Investigators named Jorge as a suspect, citing prior domestic violence, but no charge has been filed in the disappearance.

Does anyone who knew Viridiana or her movements in North Charleston in October 2007 have information that could help explain what happened?