Maria Theresa Santos was 44 when she was last seen on October 15, 2004, leaving a residence in the 900 block of South Serrano Avenue in Los Angeles at about 6:00 a.m. She was heading to catch a bus to her job in Beverly Hills while temporarily staying there with her boyfriend and her young daughter. Family described her as a devoted and responsible mother and said it was uncharacteristic for her to leave without warning or contact, especially given her daughter’s presence.

Foul play was long suspected after she failed to return from work and was never heard from again. The LAPD later linked Santos’s disappearance to the 1996 disappearance of Esperanza Torio, whose dismembered remains in Mexico were identified in 2009. That development led to charges in May 2010 against Aurangzeb Aiyoob Simon Manjra, the man Santos had been dating when she vanished. In December 2013 Manjra pleaded guilty to the murders; Santos’s body has never been recovered.

Are there details about Santos’s last known movements or people she spoke with that anyone can add?