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Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: November 26, 2001 from Longview, Washington
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: August 28, 1978
Age: 23 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 150 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Hispanic female. Black hair, black eyes. Guadalupe's ears are pierced. Her nickname is Lupita and she may use the last name Castro-Arias or Castro Arias.
Medical Conditions: Guadalupe was eight and a half months pregnant at the time of her November 2001 disappearance. It was considered a high-risk pregnancy and she was not supposed to travel.
Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: November 26, 2001 from Longview, Washington
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: November 20, 1998
Age: 3 years old
Height and Weight: 2'0, 20 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Hispanic female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Agueda's ears are pierced. She may go by her middle name, Elizabeth, or the nickname Lizzie. Some agencies may spell Agueda's first name "Aqueda."
Details of Disappearance
Agueda was last seen in Longview, Washington on November 26, 2001. She and her mother, Guadalupe Castro, were planning to go shopping with Guadalupe's husband and Agueda's father, Gregario Arias Ibal, in Portland, Oregon during the day. They were going to buy clothes for Guadalupe's unborn baby. Gregario was located, but his wife and daughter have never been heard from again. Guadalupe had been estranged from him at the time of her and Agueda's disappearances, but was considering reconciliation. She and her daughter had lived together with Guadalupe's parents for about a year prior to November 2001.
The vehicle the family had been riding in, Gregario's Jeep Cherokee, was discovered abandoned in Kerman, California sometime after their disappearances, parked at the residence of one of his relatives. Gregario dropped it off there, and left a message on his relative's answering machine. There was no sign of Agueda or her mother at the scene. Their disappearances are considered suspicious. They left behind all their clothes when they disappeared. Although Gregario was not a legal resident of the United States and traveled back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico, Guadalupe and Agueda are American citizens and Guadalupe had a job in Washington and close ties to her family and her Pentacostal church.
An anonymous phone caller to Guadalupe's family said that Guadalupe was in Arizona and ill, but the person did not provide specific information. The call was placed from Tucson, Arizona. Authorities do not know if the information provided is accurate. Gregario's family claims he and his sister Regina Ibal are also missing, but they haven't filed missing persons reports for either of them.
Guadalupe's father believes Gregario was involved in their daughter and granddaughter's disappearances. He theorizes Guadalupe was murdered but Agueda may still be alive and in central Mexico, where both her parents are originally from. Guadalupe's mother died in 2007, but her father and siblings are still alive and looking for her. Agueda and Guadalupe's cases remain unsolved.
Nonprofit seeks public's help for girl who went missing 15 years ago
Local man still searching for answers 12 years after daughter's disappearance - August 2013
Agueda Arias - NamUs
Guadalupe Castro - Doe Network
Agueda Arias - Doe Network
Guadalupe Castro - Charley Project
Agueda Arias - Charley Project
Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: November 26, 2001 from Longview, Washington
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: August 28, 1978
Age: 23 years old
Height and Weight: 5'4, 150 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Hispanic female. Black hair, black eyes. Guadalupe's ears are pierced. Her nickname is Lupita and she may use the last name Castro-Arias or Castro Arias.
Medical Conditions: Guadalupe was eight and a half months pregnant at the time of her November 2001 disappearance. It was considered a high-risk pregnancy and she was not supposed to travel.
Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance
Missing Since: November 26, 2001 from Longview, Washington
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: November 20, 1998
Age: 3 years old
Height and Weight: 2'0, 20 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Hispanic female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Agueda's ears are pierced. She may go by her middle name, Elizabeth, or the nickname Lizzie. Some agencies may spell Agueda's first name "Aqueda."
Details of Disappearance
Agueda was last seen in Longview, Washington on November 26, 2001. She and her mother, Guadalupe Castro, were planning to go shopping with Guadalupe's husband and Agueda's father, Gregario Arias Ibal, in Portland, Oregon during the day. They were going to buy clothes for Guadalupe's unborn baby. Gregario was located, but his wife and daughter have never been heard from again. Guadalupe had been estranged from him at the time of her and Agueda's disappearances, but was considering reconciliation. She and her daughter had lived together with Guadalupe's parents for about a year prior to November 2001.
The vehicle the family had been riding in, Gregario's Jeep Cherokee, was discovered abandoned in Kerman, California sometime after their disappearances, parked at the residence of one of his relatives. Gregario dropped it off there, and left a message on his relative's answering machine. There was no sign of Agueda or her mother at the scene. Their disappearances are considered suspicious. They left behind all their clothes when they disappeared. Although Gregario was not a legal resident of the United States and traveled back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico, Guadalupe and Agueda are American citizens and Guadalupe had a job in Washington and close ties to her family and her Pentacostal church.
An anonymous phone caller to Guadalupe's family said that Guadalupe was in Arizona and ill, but the person did not provide specific information. The call was placed from Tucson, Arizona. Authorities do not know if the information provided is accurate. Gregario's family claims he and his sister Regina Ibal are also missing, but they haven't filed missing persons reports for either of them.
Guadalupe's father believes Gregario was involved in their daughter and granddaughter's disappearances. He theorizes Guadalupe was murdered but Agueda may still be alive and in central Mexico, where both her parents are originally from. Guadalupe's mother died in 2007, but her father and siblings are still alive and looking for her. Agueda and Guadalupe's cases remain unsolved.
Nonprofit seeks public's help for girl who went missing 15 years ago
A national nonprofit is seeking public help in its effort to find a child who disappeared 15 years ago and who was last seen in Longview.
Agueda Arias was 3 years old when she vanished Nov. 26, 2001.
Local man still searching for answers 12 years after daughter's disappearance - August 2013
Longview police say theyre stumped. What few leads they had dried up, and no witnesses have ever come forward. Occasionally, a tip trickles in but then fizzles out. And while Arias Ibals relatives in Mexico claim that Ibal and his sister, Regina Arias Ibal, also are missing, police say the relatives have never filed missing persons reports for either sibling, leaving Castro to imagine the worst.
Im pretty sure he killed her, Castro said in an August interview. For years, the missing couples relatives and acquaintances have speculated about the disappearance.
Some say he (Arias Ibal) killed her across the border in Nogales. Some say he killed her in San Jacinto (California). Some say he killed her on I-5. That, I believe. He probably just pulled off the freeway someplace and killed her.
Castro is more optimistic about Lizzy. Once, in the year before the disappearance, Arias Ibal took Lizzy for a short, planned visit to see family in Mexico -- and then kept her there for six months. Castro has long believed that Arias Ibal most likely took Lizzy to live near relatives in the Mexican states of Jalisco or Nayarit. The possibility that his granddaughter might still be alive has kept him going.
Police say it is certainly possible that Guadalupe voluntarily cut her ties and left town. But while her husband did not have legal residence and frequently moved between Mexico and the U.S., Guadalupe and Lizzy were American citizens. Guadalupe was employed and involved with friends, family and their Pentecostal church. And she was extremely close to her sister Alicia, who still lives in the area.
Longview Police detective Olga Lozano concedes that it is fairly rare for a well-established person to simply disappear.
I think it raises the bar (that a crime has been committed) a bit higher since Guadalupe had very strong ties here. A sister who she was very close to has had no contact, Lozano said.
But with so few clues, Lozano and her colleagues have no proof that foul play could have been a factor. No suspects have been named, and Lizzy and Guadalupe remain listed as missing persons, rather than crime victims.