“That was her house, that’s what she knew. That was her favorite place to be,” Becky Celis said. “I didn’t want to not be there and her to not know where we were.”
Becky Celis’ testimony Thursday followed that of her husband’s and son’s, the family members all becoming emotional as they spoke about the hours, days and weeks after Isabel’s disappearance.
She told jurors how she braided Isabel’s hair and helped her get ready for softball the night before she went missing from her bedroom. Becky Celis was at work when her husband, Sergio, texted and then called to tell her Isabel was gone.
She told jurors that Isabel would never have walked away from the house or gone willingly with a stranger. She pointed out in photos that toys in Isabel’s room had been moved from a shelf just below her bedroom window. Isabel’s brother, Sergio Miguel, found her window open with the screen propped up against the wall the morning she was reported missing.
The family members became emotional as they told jurors about the 6-year-old Tucson girl's disappearance.Christopher M. Clements, 41, is facing charges of kidnapping, first-degree murder and burglary in the 2012
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