Josh Mankiewicz reports.
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Arelie Garcia, 25, was last seen leaving her Salinas, California home on September 22, 2022
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Arelie Garcia texted her sister “good morning” on her way to work – but the 25-year-old Californian never showed up and has been missing ever since.
That was nearly two years ago and her whereabouts are still a mystery.
“We would text each other almost every day,” said her sister Veronica Garcia on the first episode of the new season of the
Dateline: Missing in America podcast, which drops on Tuesday.
She recalled the last text she received from Arelie. “She pretty much said, ‘Good morning, I love you,’” she said. “My little one – she says that’s her baby – so she would be like, ‘I love you and the baby.’”
Salinas police say security footage shows Arelie’s 2013 bright red Honda Accord leaving the apartment she shares with her mother on Roosevelt Street around 6:30 a.m. Then just before 7 a.m., she texted her sister her morning greeting.
Arelie worked as a service advisor at My Chevrolet in Salinas and had been expected at work around 7:30 a.m. she never arrived.
Later that day, Arelie’s car was found abandoned in Big Sur on the side of Highway 1, more than an hour from her home. The sisters told Dateline there was no reason for Arelie to be in Big Sur.
Her sister Veronica had tracked down the car using Find My iPhone, which pinged to the area. The car was locked, but Arelie was nowhere to be found.
Police unlocked the car when they got to the scene and found Arelie’s phone, wallet, keys and other belongings inside.
“There is speculation about whether or not her case is connected to that of Kayeleigh Gammill,”…
The similarities are impossible to ignore,” he said of their closeness in age, the dates they went missing. “One person has been found and the other has not - that’s the big difference.”
Kayeleigh Gammill, 20, went missing on August 17, 2022, just weeks before Arelie vanished. Two weeks later, her body was found off Highway 1 in Big Sur.
This is the thread for Kayeleigh
https://kion546.com/news/2022/11/05/kayeleigh-gammils-death-now-considered-a-homicide/ SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV)- UPDATE DEC. 15, 2022, at 3:14 p.m.- The death of a woman whose body was found in Big Sur is now being investigated as a homicide, said the Monterey County Sheriff's Office...
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ETA that this other article plus footage give another timeline:
SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV)- The anniversary of a loved one's death is hard. It might even be harder when you don't know what happened to them. That's the case for the family of Arelie Garcia, who went missing out of Salinas on this day last year. Arelie Garcia is the baby of her family. They say
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- Surveillance video of that morning shows how Arelie left her home at 5:30 a.m. Instead of her regular 7:30 morning departure and wasn’t dressed for work.
- At about 6:56 a.m. - she messaged her sister Veronica saying “Good morning, I miss you & my baby, love you!” By 11:01 a.m. there was no response.
- By then work had already called the family to see why she had not shown up. Her sisters wasted no time in trying to locate her car.
- Her sister found Arelie’s car just past the Bixby Bridge. Arelie's keys were still in the ignition and her phone was also inside the vehcile.
- After Arelie's car was found the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office sent their search and rescue team — they did an extensive search for 2 days but they found nothing.
- Salinas Police Commander Brian Johnson says they haven’t found signs of foul play after processing Arelie’s car and phone.
However another article states that the driving seat was pushed back.
