“New year, new hopes, new beginnings is what the family is seeking this year,” said Brenda Trinidad, one of the volunteers assisting the family in spreading the word about the case. “It’s like cleaning the slate. They want this whole year to just be focused on new findings to locate Dulce.
“The family pleads with anyone to please come forward. It’s time to bring Dulce home.”
Dulce’s mother, Noema Alavez Perez, said she met last month with an FBI agent who is new to the case.
“He just told me that he was a new agent … that they needed new agents so they could look at the case (with) fresh eyes,” Alavez Perez said. “He told me that they were not going to stop looking and that they were going to have more people with them.”
Dulce’s family also hopes groups that specialize in searching for the missing can come in to assist, possibly searching a larger area of the sprawling city park, which covers 1,100 acres. In the days following Dulce’s disappearance, searchers scoured a wide swath of the park for clues and studied surveillance camera footage of vehicles in the area at the time. From there, the search extended out to neighboring communities.
“The family has really been wanting to bring in the
Texas EquuSearch,” Trinidad said. “Unfortunately, those people can only come out if the police give them permission.”
“What they’re trying to see is if maybe something was left behind. It’s OK to go back and look over things. People miss a lot of things,” Trinidad said. “They want organizations to be able to come out and at least assist in the search. I think, as a family, they are entitled to that.”
Any groups that want to assist are encouraged to contact Trinidad and other volunteers
via the group’s Facebook page. Information received is shared with Dulce’s family, Trinidad noted.
Family of N.J. girl missing since 2019 hopes new year brings answers