The Charley Project
Circa 2002
age progression to 28
Mom - Evelyn Hernandez
Alexis disappeared with his mother, Evelyn Hernandez. They were living together in the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood of San Francisco at the time of their disappearances
Evelyn was heavily pregnant with a boy, about one week away from her due date, when she and her son vanished.
Evelyn's wallet was found a short time after her and her son's disappearance, in a south San Francisco parking lot two blocks from the workplace of her unborn child's father. There was a disability check made out to Evelyn and $40 in cash inside the wallet. A canal near to the parking lot was searched but nothing was located that pertained to Alexis and Evelyn's cases.
Their suspicions were confirmed in July when a badly decomposed pair of legs and a torso, clad in a maternity blouse, were located near the San Francisco Bay bridge. DNA tests confirmed in September that the remains were Evelyn's. Alexis's body was not located; he has never been found. Neither was the rest of Evelyn's body, nor her fetus.
Alexis's biological father was in the Navy when his son was born; he has never known Alexis and is not considered a suspect in his son's disappearance and Evelyn's murder.
Evelyn's murder remains unsolved. The father of her unborn son, Herman Albert Aguilera, a 36-year-old married airline mechanic whom she was dating at the time of her disappearance, has been questioned and cooperated with police initially, but he has has since hired a lawyer and stopped talking to investigators. He has not been ruled out as a suspect, but he is not being called a serious suspect either.
Aguilera was reportedly unhappy when Evelyn became pregnant; he had not told her he was married until after she announced her pregnancy. Evelyn, however, seemed to want the baby and was looking forward to its birth. The parking lot where her wallet was found is nearby to a gas station used regularly by Aguilera. He claims he was at home with his wife at the time Evelyn disappeared.
There has been some speculation that Evelyn's murder and Alexis's disappearance may be related to the Laci Peterson case. She was eight months pregnant when she disappeared from her Modesto, California home on Christmas Eve, 2002. Her corpse was found, in pieces, in the San Francisco Bay in May 2003. The fetus's remains were also found.
