It took federal, state and local authorities more than five years to connect Clements to Isabel’s death, and to the death of 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez, whose body was discovered in June 2014 a few days after she disappeared after leaving her east-side home.
On the morning of April 21, 2012, Isabel’s father, Sergio Celis, called Tucson police to say his daughter was missing from her bedroom.
Clements appeared to lay low for the next several years, but in late April 2014, he filed for divorce from his estranged wife in Oregon. Roughly a month later, on June 3, Maribel Gonzalez left her home to visit a friend. Her body was discovered after three days, near where Isabel’s remains would be discovered years later.
Case filings in Clements’ divorce proceeding show a letter from Casey’s Backhoe Services in Chandler, Arizona, likely verifying Clements’ employment. More recent court filings show that Clements owes $20,542 in back child support stemming from a 2014 court order out of Oregon.