I don't really think we should focus on the secret to much. It could be anything from she was using again, pregnant, got back with the ex, running away.... basically anything. We should just stick with the facts. IMO
Can't be accessed from outside the US though. (Easy to change by going to settings at the page and click country restrictions and clear those). But not sure if the family wants it changed.
I can see it fine in the UK...
I agree that speculating on what someone's secret could have been is not really useful in a practical sense. But considering that we now know Maricela was a drug user and a drug dealer, and that she frequented the area she came up missing in, it seems more likely that this secret of hers is related to her disappearance. It was so heavy that she mentioned it, was terrified to the point that she actually slept with her sister for multiple days, then she came up missing. I think she witnessed a crime as frightening as murder. And I think someone related to that event disappeared Maricela so she couldn't talk. I think she knew her abductors, and they knew her. And they decided she was a liability.
I do not think she will be found.
All I know is I (and others) can't see it on the mainland, and Mistivon said it was because of the country settings on the Facebook page.
This is probably way out there but when I first told my DH about this case and he said they need to look over in the Santa Susanna Park/Stoney Point.
It's been several years since we were in the area and it may have grown up some with houses etc and may not be as remote and wild as it was then but in our younger days we went out there a lot for climbing, hiking and rappelling. It was a common thing for our circle of friends and us to do and the phrase was always "watch out for bodies and rattlesnakes". Rattlesnakes we saw frequently but we never stumbled across a body although they seemed to be found out there quite often.
The parks are a straight shot if you take Sherman Way to Topanga Canyon Blvd up to Chatsworth. It's not a long distance at all in my memory but then the Valley never seemed big to us because we had family and friends all over the place and would criss cross it every weekend while off on one adventure or another.
I have been thinking all week about the information that was released regarding Maricela. I have held off voicing an opinion or instinct about the latest events because I really wanted to think it through first. I now realize that, at least for me, this latest information finally explains Maricela's behavior the night she disappeared.
It never made sense to me that she would voluntarily disappear and leave her sister stranded in a downpour. I could see the disappearance as being voluntary if she had given her sister the car keys before she left the GW store, but that didn't happen. It seems much more logical that she did go outside under the pretense of smoking a cigarette, but actually intended to meet someone - especially since her cigarettes were still in the car. However, the route she took that night now seems to indicate (to me) that the meeting turned into something that Maricela didn't expect or plan for.
The two things I could never make sense of were why she left her sister and why she took such an erratic path that night. This new information and the possibility of a preplanned meeting gone wrong finally makes her whole illogical path that night and abandoning her sister make more sense - JMO.
When I was in my 20's and partying way too much I did something very similar - I left a house I was at with friends. It was the middle of the night and someone showed up that I knew to very extremely violent and dangerous, so I crawled through the bathroom window to leave. I ended up walking 2 miles to another friend's house and luckily made it there safely. I just hope that Maricela has someone up above looking out for her once again so she can come home safely this time. Knowing the reality of the situation she's most likely in I'm praying for her more than ever.
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Everything only leafs to one site, the same missing site. If there are two Facebook pages, please post them both.You can navigate to the Missing: Maricela Garcia Facebook page through the Bring Maricela Home link.
https://www.facebook.com/bringmaricelahome/?fref=ts
I think she frequented the area and purchased and/or sold there in the past. She may have spontaneously flagged someone down that she bought/sold from in the past, or maybe merely saw hanging around sometimes. So, she may have encountered someone and made the supposed buy/sell, and that person or persons took advantage of an opportunity.So she was going for a smoke, someone(s) she hadn't dealt with that day...she just happened to see them while smoking? Or it was an arranged meeting? Just trying to figure how this meeting might have came about.
Everything only leafs to one site, the same missing site. If there are two Facebook pages, please post them both.
Also, I am unable to find an update for yesterday (2/9) that was mentioned ... ???
The other FB page was removed, gone, as far as I know, so don't have a link.
I don't know anything about an update for yesterday, never mentioned one in my post. Maybe whomever mentioned a post on 2/9 will respond.
That's a good option. Sunday, we are focusing on the Sepulveda Basin. I don't think we can even really make progress in such a large area It all looks like this:
Leese, Balboa Mom, Katy....are any of you going to the search tomorrow? I need two people in a specific location about 945-1015 and I can't. Mr. Mistivon and I are going to be in two locations besides the third one at the same time.
It must be a pair or team, tho.
If you can help, please let me know.
We also need men if anyone can bring a guy or two.
Thanks