Celia DeJesus, 37, of Boston was last seen on February 14, 2017. She frequented the Mass and Cass area and had a long history of substance use, progressing from cocaine to heroin. Her family last heard from her in 2019; after that contact she abruptly stopped communicating and there has been no activity on her phone or in her health records.

In 2020 a boyfriend said she had died of an overdose and been buried, but no official records or other evidence have supported that claim. The family searched extensively and even checked with the medical examiner’s office without finding her. The neighborhood’s high numbers of missing people linked to addiction and homelessness have complicated efforts to locate her.

Anyone with information about Celia’s whereabouts or who saw her in the Mass and Cass area after February 2017 is asked to come forward.