Anna Laura Costa Porsborg was 22 when she was last seen on December 27, 2022, in El Segundo, California, while on vacation in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, Luis Antonio Gomes Akay. A U.S. Army soldier originally from Santarém, Brazil, she had been sending photos to her mother the day she disappeared. Her family’s last communication from her was December 27; two days later her family reported her missing to Brazilian authorities, who involved the FBI.

Hotel surveillance captured Akay on December 29 struggling to move a large suitcase from the Doubletree Hotel in El Segundo. Akay was arrested January 1, 2023, and during questioning confessed to killing Anna Laura the night of December 27, saying he strangled her, kept her body in a suitcase in the hotel room for two days, then buried her in the mountains. He said he could not recall the exact burial site; authorities believe her remains may be in the Angeles National Forest. Extensive searches have not recovered her body, though her cell phone was found in a mountainous area in November 2023.

The case is being prosecuted as a no-body homicide and Akay is awaiting trial. If anyone was in El Segundo or the Angeles National Forest area in late December 2022 and saw anything unusual, please share what was seen or any information about locations where a burial might have occurred.