Yeritza Aponte-Soto was 17 when she vanished from Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, after leaving home in the Luciana community on February 10, 2001 to go to swimming pools in the Collores area. She never returned. At the time she was described as a Hispanic female, 5 feet 0 inches, about 130 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes, a large birthmark on her left hand, a five-inch scar on her right leg, and a missing upper left tooth. She was last seen wearing a beige t-shirt, blue spandex capri shorts, blue sandals and carrying a blue backpack.

Investigators recovered 26 photos of her—some in suggestive poses—buried in a bag under the patio of Amilcar Matias Torres, whom authorities believe abducted her. Torres’s brother confirmed Torres knew Aponte-Soto; Torres was serving a twenty-year sentence for soliciting sex from teenage girls he met online. No formal charge in her disappearance has been filed. Yeritza’s family was forced to leave Puerto Rico because of the pain her disappearance caused and continues to seek answers.

Did anyone in Juana Díaz or Collores remember seeing Yeritza around February 10, 2001?