Recent content by CarlK90245

Yes, that is very unlikely that she was in Visalia. Chouest probably found her somewhere near downtown LA.

On the morning of the Crime Victims Rights Week ceremony, I stopped by the Westlake High School, and took a video clip of the upper-parking area where Maricela was found. Here is what the area looks like now.

Maricela's child was a daughter. She was raised by Maricela's family after her disappearance (not sure which members of her family).

The woman standing second from the right in the prosecution team group photo is Chouest's surviving victim who testified against him in his trial for the murders of Shirley and Maricela.

And here is the video that preceded the presentation of awards to the Prosecution team

I was at the ceremony that was held at the Camarillo Library on Wednesday, April 22. This is the video that was played prior to the presentation of the 2026 Justice for Victims of Crime award to myself and three other DDP team members who attended. Here is the video that preceded the...

Today, March 12, 2026 is Maricela's 68th birthday.

LA County is notorious for failing to keep anything on their old cases, from which a DNA profile can be constructed. I don''t know if it was this case, or one of the other Mt. Baldy area skeletal remains cases, that I called them up, and they said that they didn't have the remains anymore...

Both of those are artist's renditions. The one on the left was created by me, using a coroner's photo that is not publicly available. The one on the right was done by the NCMEC, based on the post-embalming photo that the agency released to the public.

No, I didn't update the tree, and they incorrectly have Sotera's adoptive parents set as her parents.

Yes, they are in family search, and can be found if you search on their names, but birth or baptism records of their grandchildren would not show up in a query of their names, even if they are named in the birth records of the grandchildren. What you linked to was a tree constructed by a...

We knew it wasn't one of the sons due to some very technical issues with how X-chromosome segments pass from generation to generation. X Chromosome segments cannot pass from father to son. They can only pass from father to daughter, mother to son, or mother to daughter. We had one GEDMatch...

Sotera is Maricela's great grandmother. Her mother Catarina passed away when Sotera was 5 years old. Her father Martin passed away when she was 12. Somewhere around then, Sotera was adopted by her maternal aunt Paula Montellano, and Sotera's surname was changed to Hernandez. All...

Her name is Maricela Rocha Parga. She was 22 years old at the time of her death.