IN - Alejandra Gutierrez, 10, Fort Wayne, 8 Dec 2005

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When 16-year-old Martin Gutierrez left his house Thursday morning, his little sister was still sleeping.

Alejandra Gutierrez, a fifth-grader at Maplewood Elementary School, could catch a few extra winks because Fort Wayne Community Schools had one of its regularly scheduled two-hour “delay days.” But when the school day did begin, Gutierrez wasn’t there.

Gutierrez, 10, was last seen at 9:50 a.m. leaving her home in the 4000 block of Clinton Street for a bus stop at Calhoun Street and Branning Avenue. She was reported missing at 9 p.m. Thursday after her mother returned home from work and could not find the girl, a Fort Wayne Police Department report said.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/13377829.htm
Picture at link.
 
The school notifying the family is completely peripheral. Alejandra wasn't on the bus.

By the time her absence from class could have been reported, and checked against those with excused absenses, and the bilingual employee contacted the mother, Alejandra was long gone.

Sad. But by the time the system would have worked, it was too late anyway.
 
KatherineQ said:
The school notifying the family is completely peripheral. Alejandra wasn't on the bus.

By the time her absence from class could have been reported, and checked against those with excused absenses, and the bilingual employee contacted the mother, Alejandra was long gone.

Sad. But by the time the system would have worked, it was too late anyway.



Roll is taken first thing in the morning. The info is then taken to the office where a certain person notifies parents if their children aren't in their class.
I always received a call by 9:00 a.m. I'm sure that the school had the work number for the mother. Schools always have numbers of where to reach the parents and emergency numbers.

If LE could have been notified in the morning instead of the evening it would have put them hours ahead instead of behind.
 
Bobbisangel said:
Roll is taken first thing in the morning. The info is then taken to the office where a certain person notifies parents if their children aren't in their class.
I always received a call by 9:00 a.m. I'm sure that the school had the work number for the mother. Schools always have numbers of where to reach the parents and emergency numbers.

If LE could have been notified in the morning instead of the evening it would have put them hours ahead instead of behind.

Roll isn't taken here until school has been in session for an hour and 15 minutes. Here, elementary school starts at 7:45, and you aren't considered "absent" until 9, when roll is taken. A call from school is really effective if the child is playing hooky, or some weird thing happened and the child's bus stop was skipped, etc.

I just think you're already too late to catch a kidnapper in this system, no matter how timely the school is in notifying the parent. It's a good way to keep tabs on a child who's playing hooky, but it's way too slow to catch a child who's been kidnapped by a stranger.
 
The family didn't even report her missing until 9:00 p.m. I doubt that a phone call from the school would have done much.
 
12-12-05 Fortwayne.com:
Police have found no evidence that Alejandra was abducted, but are not ruling out any possible explanations for her disappearance, police spokesman Mike Joyner said`. “We don’t know, we really don’t know,” he said.

This is a 10 year old girl for gosh sakes.....
 
Prayers that this sweet little girl is found safe soon. Alejandra, where are you???
 
Regardless of there being no evedence of foul play we have a 10 year old girl missing. There needs to be an Amber Alert, major media coverage, searches, and so on....
Yes, the school needs to work on their absentee parent call- but the main focus needs to be where is this little girl.
Has anyone heard anything new on this? Something more than we already know.
 
CrimeHater said:
Regardless of there being no evedence of foul play we have a 10 year old girl missing. There needs to be an Amber Alert, major media coverage, searches, and so on....
Yes, the school needs to work on their absentee parent call- but the main focus needs to be where is this little girl.
Has anyone heard anything new on this? Something more than we already know.
FOUND DAILY COVERAGE FROM FORT WAYNE NEWSPAPER LINKED ABOVE....SOMEHOW I CAN NOT GET BACK THERE TO POST LINK FOR STORY FROM YESTERDAY..

Seems family is upset and blames such since mom was home and not at work yet,so if she was reported absent then mom would have known something was wrong and would have looked right away.

Seems family is doing their best to post fliers, talk with neighbors, friends.....blessthem. I think they need some massive assistance to get word out...like I would if she was mine. Just not knowing where to turn, what to do.
Hope LE is helping out big time, checking offenders in neighborhood,etc.

Prayers she is found soon.
 


ALEJANDRA GUTIERREZ



Case Type: Lost, Injured, Missing



DOB: Jul 28, 1995

Sex: Female

Missing Date: Dec 8, 2005

Race: White/Hisp

Age Now: 10

Height: 4'6" (137 cm)

Missing City: FORT WAYNE

Weight: 111 lbs (50 kg)

Missing State : IN

Hair Color: Black

Missing Country: United States

Eye Color: Brown





Case Number: NCMC1033492



Circumstances: Alejandra was last seen at approximately 9:50 a.m. on December 8, 2005 when she left her home to walk to her school bus stop which is a few blocks from her home. She never arrived at school and has not been seen or heard from since. She was last seen wearing a turtleneck shirt, dress pants, a brown jacket with a white fur collar, and a white hat. She was carrying a black backpack. Alejandra has a dimple on her left cheek.



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Possible lead in this case. The information comes from a tv station in Indianapolis. The Fort Wayne stations have yet to report this possible lead. :(

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4245057

By Pam Elliot
24-Hour News 8

The Fort Wayne man who admitted to killing his family this week could be linked to another crime involving a child. A source close to the investigation says Simon Rios is now a suspect in the disappearance of a little girl.

Alejandra Gutierrez, 10, is the subject of a multi-agency search after she went missing on Thursday.

“When a child this young is missing for this long it's a very, very serious and grave situation,” said Chief Rusty York, Fort Wayne PD.

On Tuesday morning, a family in Gutierrez’s neighborhood on the Fort Wayne south side was strangled. The man of the house, 33-year-old Simon Rios, admitted to strangling his wife and three daughters. Rios is being charged with their murders.

“I'm not saying there's definitely a connection but I'm not ruling it out because there is still an investigation,” said Chief York.

That's about all the police chief would say about a connection between the girl's disappearance and the Rios killings. However, a source close to the investigation tells 24-Hour News 8 that the two are linked.

A court document says Rios argued with his wife after she came home from work at 1:30 a.m. It says the subject of the argument was Rios doing things around the house.

Meanwhile authorities are getting calls about Gutierrez and questions about why no Amber Alert was issued when she went missing.

As 24-Hour News 8 learned in the disappearance of Katie Collman a year ago, state police need a reason to believe a child has been abducted and is in danger, along with a description of a suspect or car before an Amber Alert can be issued.

“You're asking me if parents should be terrified. I don't know that they should be terrified, but they should be extremely careful until it's resolved. They should be careful anyway,” said Bob Scigalski, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. He is in Indiana to help on the case. “Certainly the parents of Alejandra were careful and sometimes, sometimes the devil wins and hopefully this isn't going to be the case, but that does happen.”

In Marion County, the sheriff’s department has come up with a missing or endangered person alert procedure to follow when the criteria for an Amber Alert is not present and police officers still need the public's help in finding a child or even an adult who might be in danger. Authorities call on the media to get the information out.

Police say while Rios has confessed to the four killings of his wife and daughters, he has not confessed to abducting Alejandra Gutierrez.
 
Information about missing 10-year-old Alejandra Gutierrez has now reached a national audience, and the FBI has been brought in to help aid Fort Wayne Police.
Fernando Zapari, publisher of El Mexicano newspaper, contacted Marco Dominguez, a newscaster with the Univision television affiliate in Indianapolis, and told Dominguez about the continuing search for Alejandra. On Monday night, Zapari said the story aired in Los Angeles, the headquarters of Univision.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/13397439.htm
 
Nancy Grace covered this little girl's story last night. Her older brother was on the show. Nancy asked the brother if he thought his sister might have been involved in the murder of the wife and three children that were murdered as they lived near the school. The brother said that he didn't think so. Who knows though. If the man did have something to do with this little girl's disappearance you would think he would just say so as he has already been charged with the murders of his whole family. He wouldn't really have anything to lose by confessing.
 
Rios told police he and his wife argued after she arrived home from work on Tuesday, according to a probable cause affidavit. He said he hit her with a steel pipe, then strangled her with an extension cord, the affidavit states.

The bodies were found a day after authorities searched the neighbourhood for clues to the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl.

Police spokesperson Mike Joyner said that police did not find a connection between the cases when they questioned Rios, but that he is a possible suspect.

Rios had a previous conviction in Allen County for misdemeanour domestic battery in 2003, but friends said they had seen no signs of trouble in the family.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1851227,00.html
 
.....and little Alejandra went missing the previous Thursday morn on her way to school, Rios, who recently lost his job, contacted police with suicide call on Tues from his house and confessed to killing wife and three children.

Rios is now a POI in Alejandra's disappearance.

This does not look good at all.
 
Simon N. Rios is also now a person of interest in the disappearance of 10-year-old Alejandra Gutierrez, police spokesman Michael Joyner said.
He said there is no evidence suggesting Rios was involved in her disappearance but that police don't want to rule out any options. The girl disappeared last week while on the way to her bus stop, which is two doors down from the Rios home.
The neighborhood was already on edge because of Alejandra's disappearance when the four members of the Rios family were killed.
Police said Rios began arguing with his wife about him "doing things around the house" when she returned home from work at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. The argument became physical, and Rios struck her with a steel pipe and then used an extension cord to strangle her, police said.
One by one, he went to his children's bedrooms and strangled them with the same cord, the police documents said. He told police he put the girls in one bed and tied shoelaces around their necks to ensure they didn't wake up.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051215/NEWS01/512150450
 
The day Alejandra Gutierrez disappeared one week ago, a record 8.3 inches of snow fell in Fort Wayne Another inch of snow and ice fell Wednesday. Both incidents make it increasingly difficult for law enforcement to find her, said Lee A. Manning, a consultant for the Alexandria, Va.-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
“(The snow) could cover evidence. It makes it more difficult on a search team,” said Manning, who arrived Sunday to help with the search for the 10-year-old girl who was last seen leaving her home in the 4000 block Clinton Street at 9:50 a.m. last Thursday.
Manning said more than 9,000 fliers with a picture and physical description of Alejandra have been faxed to law enforcement agencies and medical facilities in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. The fliers also have been distributed to convenience stores, hotels and other retailers within a 75-mile radius of the Gutierrez home. Her picture also is posted on the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s Web site.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/13408439.htm

Police are not ruling out any possible explanation or suspect for the disappearance of 10-year-old Alejandra Gutierrez – including the man charged with killing his wife and three daughters Tuesday.
While police stress they have not found any evidence that could tie Simon Rios to the disappearance of Alejandra, Police Chief Rusty York said Wednesday that investigators couldn’t rule anyone out, including Rios.

Investigators haven’t found a connection other than that the two families were familiar with each other, said Capt. Paul Shrawder, with the department’s Investigative and Support Division. Police aren’t willing to say with certainty that Rios is not involved, but plan on looking into what kind of interaction the two families had, Shrawder said.
Rios and his wife, Ana Casas, went to visit Alejandra’s family Monday and brought the family a small gift. Alejandra knew the couple’s 10-year-old daughter, Liliana K. Rios Casas, from school. The two girls attended the same elementary school last year.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/13412519.htm
 

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