Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 12/01/2013
- Missing From:
- Missing From Bluffton, South Carolina
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race Hispanic
- Date of Birth:
- Age:
- Age 47 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’2, 115 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic female. Black hair, brown eyes. Gonzalez-Almazan’s ears are pierced.
- Details of Disappearance:
- On December 1st, 2013, Maria Gonzalez-Almazan vanished from her home in Bluffton, South Carolina. She’d been at her grandson’s birthday party. Before disappearing, her daughter overheard a worried argument between Maria and her boyfriend, Osman Galicia-Escobedo. Maria asked, “What will my granddaughter do if I leave you?” Osman, who’d been drinking, cried.
Hours later, her apartment was empty, with unfinished food and a broken TV remote. Maria’s phone was later found near a bridge, and her car was discovered days later in Savannah, Georgia.
Osman was seen in Savannah shortly after Maria disappeared. He had scratches on his face, and Maria wasn’t with him. He bought a plane ticket to Guatemala but never took the flight and has disappeared himself. Police want to talk to him.
Maria’s family says Osman was controlling and sometimes violent. Police suspect he was involved in her disappearance, but without enough evidence, no one has been charged, and the case remains unsolved.
- Agency:
- Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office 843-255-3200
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This person was missing Missing Since 12/01/2013