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Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a 40-year-old Arlington man accused of abducting his teen-age stepdaughter in 2001.

Gabriel Emilio Cuauhtli is charged with kidnapping and tampering with evidence in the disappearance of Margarette Ann Cuauhtli, who was 16 at the time. Authorities suspect that he falsely reported her missing and created fictitious emails that appeared to be from the Sam Houston High School senior.

Margarette Ann Cuauhtli has never been located.
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Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a 40-year-old Arlington man accused of abducting his teen-age stepdaughter in 2001.

Gabriel Emilio Cuauhtli is charged with kidnapping and tampering with evidence in the disappearance of Margarette Ann Cuauhtli, who was 16 at the time. Authorities suspect that he falsely reported her missing and created fictitious emails that appeared to be from the Sam Houston High School senior.

Margarette Ann Cuauhtli has never been located.
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Police dig yard at missing teen's home



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Police were excavating the backyard of the home where Margarette Ann Cuauhtli lived.Almost five years after an Arlington teenager's disappearance, police are digging for possible new evidence in the case. Margarette Ann Cuauhtli went missing on October 11, 2001. At the time, her family lived in a house in the 7600 block of Port Phillip Drive, not far from the southeast campus of Tarrant County Community College. On Wednesday, Arlington police investigators and representatives from the Tarrant County District Attorney's office used heavy equipment to excavate a portion of the backyard at that address. Margarette, who attended Sam Houston High School, was 16 when she disappeared. Police later arrested and indicted her stepfather, Gabriel Cuahtli, for kidnapping. He told police that Margarette's boyfriend had abducted her and turned her over to the Mexican mafia.

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Margarette Ann Cuauhtli

UPDATED NOVEMBER 16, 2021; POSTED JULY 20, 2021

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Name: Margarette Ann Cuauhtli
Age: 16 years old
Last seen: October 11, 2001
Location: Arlington, Texas
Status: Still missing

Case Information
16 year old Margarette Ann Cuauhtli was last seen at her home in Arlington, Texas on the morning of October 11, 2001.

Disappearance
On the morning of October 11, 2001, Margarette was at her family’s residence, located in the 7600 block of Port Phillip Drive, near the southeast campus of Tarrant County Community College.

Margarette, a 16 year old student at Sam Houston High School, was reported missing by her adoptive father Gabriel Emilio Cuahtli.

In the runaway report filed on October 12, Gabriel told investigators that his daughter had voluntarily run off with her boyfriend the previous morning.

Investigation
Margarette’s father Gabriel claimed that she was abducted by the Mexican Mafia, and sold into prostitution. He said men with shaved heads showed up at their home demanding ransom money for her release.

He also claimed that he received several emails from Margarette after she disappeared, dated between October of 2001 and February 2002. The emails were sent to some of her friends and family, claiming she was being held against her will in Mexico and forced into prostitution.

A photo of Margarette and another girl in front of a church in Mexico was attached to one of her emails. The image was analyzed by officials and determined to be fraudulent, and the emails were traced back to Gabriel’s office computer at Chase Bank on East Border Street where he worked as a fraud investigator.

Police believe he wrote the emails and fabricated evidence in an attempt to lead the investigation in other directions.

He was arrested on suspicion of abducting his daughter in April 2002. When he was arrested he told police Margarette had been abducted by her boyfriend, who then turned her over to the Mexican Mafia.

In 2004, he was convicted on unrelated embezzlement charges, and pleaded guilty to theft and tampering with evidence. As part of his plea agreement the kidnapping charge was dropped.

Margarette’s uncle gave authorities a videotaped statement by his niece that was recorded in 2001, which included allegations of abuse against her father. Gabriel claimed that she was lying, and maintains his innocence in her disappearance.

In 2006 police searched the family’s former residence, including under a patio that had been installed a few days after her disappearance, but no trace of Margarette was found.

Gabriel Emilio Cuauhtli is currently serving a 20 year sentence for embezzlement charges unrelated to her disappearance.

Whereabouts
The circumstances regarding Margarette’s disappearance remain unclear, and her case was changed from endangered runaway to endangered missing by the end of October 2001. Her case remains unsolved.

Appearance
Hispanic female born October 25, 1984. She has black hair, brown eyes, stands 5’5 tall and weighs approximately 130 pounds.

Margarette has a scar on her right leg and may wear glasses or blue colored contacts. Her nickname is Ann.

Investigating Agency
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Margarette Ann Cuauhtli please contact the Arlington Police Department at (817) 459-5667 or the National Center For Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).

Margarette Ann Cuauhtli - Disappeared
 
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article261374552.html

Vanished: 10 of the oldest unsolved missing children cases in Fort Worth and Dallas

More than 350 children from Texas are considered missing, with kidnappings and disappearances going back to the 1950s, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

These 10 children from Fort Worth, Dallas, Arlington and Grand Prairie are among the oldest unsolved disappearances. They each vanished more than 20 years ago.

If you have any information about any of these cases, call 911 or the 24-hour tip line: 800-843-5678. You can also report suspected abuse and other information at missingkids.org.

MARGARETTE “ANN” CUAUHTLI​


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Missing since Oct. 11, 2001
Arlington Born: Oct. 25, 1984
Age now: 37
Race: Asian

Margarette’s photo is shown age-progressed to 26 years. She was last seen at home on Oct. 11, 2001, and has not been seen or heard from since. For years before, the teen had been confiding to friends and some family members about her troubled home life and alleged abuse at the hands of her adoptive father, Gabriel Cuauhtli. The investigation was a twisting trail that ended with a prison sentence but, still no trace of Ann. Read more about the case and hear our podcast here.

Margarette has a scar on her right leg and may wear glasses.
 

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