CA Alison Chao, 15-year-old girl Missing in San Gabriel Valley Last seen 7/16/24

[AnyNameIWish]

15-year-old girl Missing in San Gabriel Valley

Alison Chao, a Monterey Park teen, disappeared after she left her home to go see a relative in San Gabriel, police say.

www.foxla.com

A 15yo child has been missing since Tuesday evening in a suburb of LA.

Last seen leaving her home around 5:30pm on her BLUE mountain bike, on her way to aunt's house about 3 miles away.

It's not dark until much later these days so I hope neighbors will check all their Ring doorcams- it's a neighborhood where I think many homes would have such technology set up so I am hopeful they'll find leads.

 

[LadyL]

it's already been 3 days? this is not good

 

[AnyNameIWish]

it's already been 3 days? this is not good

It's 11pm on Thursday in California, so technically it's been 54 hours, not fully 3 days yet. No word on her cell phone, online activity. I am still hopeful she ended up meeting up with an online BF her age or something innocuous.

Mom sounds frantic on the news report and it's hard not to get emotional just watching that. I don't know why it took so long to get the word out, there were flyers posted online but no news reports/official until today.

First news report aired on local news was the local FOX affiliate around 10pm on Thursday night. (SOMEONE pls Remind me how quickly we all heard of Madeline Soto's disappearance?)

 

[Toby28]

15-year-old girl Missing in San Gabriel Valley

Alison Chao, a Monterey Park teen, disappeared after she left her home to go see a relative in San Gabriel, police say.

www.foxla.com

A 15yo child has been missing since Tuesday evening in a suburb of LA.

Last seen leaving her home around 5:30pm on her BLUE mountain bike, on her way to aunt's house about 3 miles away.

It's not dark until much later these days so I hope neighbors will check all their Ring doorcams- it's a neighborhood where I think many homes would have such technology set up so I am hopeful they'll find leads.

She was riding a bike. Do we know what route she took? We need to ask people for any home/business camera footage along the most likely routes.

 

[borndem]

She left home on her bike around 5:30 to go see her aunt who lives about 3 miles away. Agree that she surely could have made the trip to her aunt's house without it even beginning to get dark. If she had had trouble with her bike (flat tire, brakes or gear problem, etc.), or if she had a bad spill, surely someone would have seen it and helped her -- or if she had a phone, she could have called home or called her aunt.
Where is she?
Hoping that we will see good news soon. I don't like this.
Too many days missing.
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[AnyNameIWish]

https://www.montereypark.ca.gov/ImageRepository/Document?documentID=16424

From the Monterey park Police Department

I'm not from that part of LA but it's a ways from the city itself- I can't imagine being able to leave by train or plane or bus from the San Gabriel Valley (public transit isn't that efficient.) Also... where is her bike????? It's not been found, right? Any mention of a cell phone? By age 15 I would be shocked if she didn't have one.

 

[Unalienable Rights]

NCMEC

Have you seen this child? Alison Jillian Chao

Missing From: Monterey Park, CA. Missing Date: July 16, 2024. Both photos shown are of Alison..

www.missingkids.org

 

[Interested_But_Confused]

She was riding a bike. Do we know what route she took? We need to ask people for any home/business camera footage along the most likely routes.

Assuming Alison was really going to her aunt's house (and at this point there's nothing to suggest she wasn't), it looks like there are hundreds of different routes she could have taken.

But in every case it appears she would have needed to cross the San Bernadino Freeway. So getting any CCTV from the freeway under/overpasses would be a good start to see if she made it that far.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Alison Jillian Chao left her home in the 200 block of North Yanez Avenue Tuesday at about 5:30 p.m., police said. She was on the way to visit a family member in nearby San Gabriel, but never arrived at the home

Police seek missing Monterey Park teen last seen riding bike to family member's home

Authorities are asking for help to find a missing 15-year-old who was last seen Tuesday evening in Monterey Park.

www.nbclosangeles.com

 

[citizen_sleuth]

Monterey Park family pleads for help in finding missing 15-year-old girl

Have you seen her? According to her mother, Alison Jillian Chao was headed to her aunt's home on her bike but never arrived.

abc7.com

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Family and friends gathered Thursday night to post flyers in the Monterey Park area, hoping someone might recognize Chao.

"It's been very chaotic," said Alison's mother, Annie Chao. "It sounds crazy but, we don't have a play-by-play for this kind of stuff. What do you do? As a parent, you're making flyers, you're contacting the news ... we were out driving around to anyone that was open ... posting up flyers. We reached out to the community. My younger sister took care of all the social media, hitting up all the influencers ... the community has really come together to help me look for my little girl."

 

[QueenBeeDatsMe1980]

She was riding a bike. Do we know what route she took? We need to ask people for any home/business camera footage along the most likely routes.

I hope someone has something on camera. Someone should see if there are cameras at that park thats on the map....

 

[LadyL]

hopefully her family is able to access any of her devices left at home and any social media

but yeah, cops need to get onto camera footage

 

[charminglane]

I'm in the SGV.
We are all talking about her at work.
We study faces of the missing in case someone comes in.

 

[AnyNameIWish]

Assuming Alison was really going to her aunt's house (and at this point there's nothing to suggest she wasn't), it looks like there are hundreds of different routes she could have taken.

But in every case it appears she would have needed to cross the San Bernadino Freeway. So getting any CCTV from the freeway under/overpasses would be a good start to see if she made it that far.

Such a good point.. are there cameras at main intersections out there?

There's a also a website set up by family,

Help Us Find Alison Chao

www.alisonchao.com

Mom says her own sisters are helping- and we've seen grandma. Haven't heard of bio dad's location or if he's in the picture. I hope this isn't related to custody issues.

 

[Inthedetails]

Such a good point.. are there cameras af main intersections out there?

There's a also a website set up by family,

Help Us Find Alison Chao

www.alisonchao.com

Mom says her own sisters are helping- and we've seen grandma. Haven't heard of bio dad's location or if he's in the picture. I hope this isn't related to custody issues.

Well, if it's a custody issue, she is probably safe somewhere. That might be the best scenario.

I'm worried.

jmo

 

[slowpoke]

Such a good point.. are there cameras at main intersections out there?

There's a also a website set up by family,

Help Us Find Alison Chao

www.alisonchao.com

Mom says her own sisters are helping- and we've seen grandma. Haven't heard of bio dad's location or if he's in the picture. I hope this isn't related to custody issues.

And here’s the Instagram page Help Find Alison

There’s an article in Chinese posted there, so I put it through Google Lens to translate. Most of the article was the same as the ones in English, but this part I haven’t seen anywhere else. It says she “did not have a mobile phone with her, nor did she have any tracking device.”

I wonder if that’s unusual for her not to have a phone with her?

 

[AnyNameIWish]

I wonder if that’s unusual for her not to have a phone with her?

@slowpoke
thank you for translation!!!

This is the big question. Did she forget the phone? If she's heading to her aunt's, she might not need it.. but how does she get back home? Picked up by mom/dad along with bike? Spending night at aunt's? But if she's spending the night, why leave the phone?

15, so she's in 9th grade... for me this is a time I don't know all their friends since it's not middle school anymore.

I really just hope she is hiding out with a friend at their house, any alternative explanation is too scary to consider.

What was she up to this summer? Did she often bike to her aunt's? Or dad's?(not sure where bio dad lives?) It's LA so it's pretty sprawling, I'm actually surprised she bikes from place to place. (I grew up in a suburb of LA and never biked for transit- the song is true, Nobody Walks in LA*)

*for recreation/exercise, we do. for transport, no.

 

[slowpoke]

@slowpoke
thank you for translation!!!

This is the big question. Did she forget the phone? If she's heading to her aunt's, she might not need it.. but how does she get back home? Picked up by mom/dad along with bike? Spending night at aunt's? But if she's spending the night, why leave the phone?

15, so she's in 9th grade... for me this is a time I don't know all their friends since it's not middle school anymore.

I really just hope she is hiding out with a friend at their house, any alternative explanation is too scary to consider.

What was she up to this summer? Did she often bike to her aunt's? Or dad's?(not sure where bio dad lives?) It's LA so it's pretty sprawling, I'm actually surprised she bikes from place to place. (I grew up in a suburb of LA and never biked for transit- the song is true, Nobody Walks in LA*)

*for recreation/exercise, we do. for transport, no.

This picture isn’t very sharp, but her backpack does look to be somewhat full. Like you wondered, was she supposed to be spending the night at her aunt’s house in San Gabriel, and has overnight things in there?

She must be familiar with the route to follow to get there if she didn’t take her phone. But, I’m very eager to know if not taking a phone is unusual for her. Many teens are ‘glued’ to them. If unusual, it could point to it being left behind as a deliberate action so she couldn’t be located that way.

JMO

 

[Interested_But_Confused]

Such a good point.. are there cameras at main intersections out there?

RSBM

I wish I knew the answer. Bridges and tunnels often do have cameras, but whether *these* under/overpasses have them (and whether they're actually operational!) is a good question.

Hopefully LE are looking into it, because it's one of the most obvious places to start, IMO. There are a few different routes over the freeway, and I think it would be very helpful to know which one Alison took--or whether she reached the freeway at all.

 

[BlaiseFinlay]

I agree that whether she left her phone at home intentionally or whether she didn’t have one on her for some other reason (parents don’t allow one?) will be telling.

Didn’t get a Citizen notification of her missing until today.

Hoping for the best, but very scary.