Lucero Sarabia was 21 and eight months pregnant when she disappeared from San Antonio, Texas, after a Thanksgiving party on November 26, 2004. During the gathering she had an altercation and was asked to leave; a guest named Richard Anthony Chabes offered her a ride and she accepted. Lucero called her mother between 1:30 and 2:00 a.m. that night to say she was at Chabes’s apartment and that he planned to drive her home, but she never arrived and that call was the last confirmed contact.

Chabes later said Lucero chose to walk home around 6:00 a.m., a statement that has been viewed with suspicion. Investigators found blood on the walls and carpet of his apartment days after she vanished, though reportedly not enough to indicate a fatal injury. Chabes was reportedly cleared as a suspect and moved to Indiana. The case remains open and unsolved; foul play is suspected.