Culpeper, Virginia, faced a serious disappearance when 15-year-old Candelaria Caal Coc was reported missing after leaving her sponsor’s residence on September 13, 2022. Described as a Hispanic female with black shoulder-length hair, brown eyes, 5 feet 3 inches tall and about 103 pounds, she was last seen wearing a black sweater and light blue jeans. Her whereabouts have remained unknown and the circumstances of her departure have not been publicly detailed.

Candelaria’s case is part of a troubling local pattern: several Hispanic teenagers, many of Guatemalan descent, have vanished from the small town in recent years. Another 15-year-old, Esdras Nehemias Sun Pop, went missing from a sponsor’s residence the same day. The Culpeper Police Department is handling the investigation, but few public updates or links between cases have been released.

Does anyone in Culpeper or the surrounding area have information about where Candelaria might have gone or who she was spending time with before she left?