Daniel Aguilar Garcia was 79 when he was last seen at his Phoenix home near 14th Place and Campbell Avenue on May 6, 2005. Public descriptions list him as about 5 feet 2 inches tall, roughly 160 pounds, with gray or partly gray hair. His disappearance affected a very large family; police later said he was the father of at least 30 children and had been married about ten years to Larisa Garcia.

Investigators eventually developed evidence that led to a dramatic turn in 2010. Detectives searched the site Larisa identified and recovered very small, badly degraded bone fragments, but DNA testing could not conclusively link them to Daniel. Larisa was arrested and later pleaded guilty to manslaughter; she received a ten-year sentence. Daniel’s DNA profile was entered into CODIS for future comparisons, but his remains have not been definitively identified.

Does anyone who knew Daniel or the family have information about his life in Phoenix or the weeks before he vanished?