Found Deceased TX - Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19, last seen on Christmas eve, San Antonio, 24 Dec 2025

[snooptroop88]

Was she going to visit someone she knew, possibly relatively nearby, and she didn't feel the need to bring the phone for such a short errand/trip? This is a pretty vast residential area, I'm streetviewing it now, she just left a vehicle at home, there are not many places I see in close walking distance where she could engage in self-harm and remain missing to this point. A different scenario: it's holiday time, maybe she's feeling sentimental. If she was looking around for something in her car, maybe it was something she wanted to return to someone, something of sentimental value, maybe something someone had given her, or something left behind by someone in the vehicle. OR maybe she accidentally left something of hers when out with someone else, and she's going over to see if that person can locate it. I do think that is probably her in the car image and the shadows are making it look like pants. It's definitely difficult to know for certain, though.

@Friday Fan already mentioned this doesn't seem like a stomping ground for a trafficker. Couldn't agree more on this. That location looks like a very comfortable and sprawling residential area. Cannot picture traffickers roaming around in that area looking for targets (although, I mean, who knows). But she probably did venture out into areas of more concentrated population at her age, and she may have been spotted and tracked.

And how far would she walk? About a mile away from her start point in one direction on Wildhorse Pkway, there is an intersection I streetviewed into, Schaenfield Road at Galm, it's very wooded and industrial looking at some stretches, rusty trailers, etc. Moreover, when I looked up this intersection, it evidently has a lot of vehicular traffic issues. Also, could she have been looking for any kind of medication in the vehicle? Because there's a CVS over near that Schaenfield & Galm intersection, I think There's a Circle K, likely that would be open. But why not drive? Well, if she's a walker anyway, she might have figured she'd kill incorporate an errand into her walk. With that said, though, I'm guessing (?) she went in the other direction on Wildhorse, towards that sports complex that is evidently a hub for the current searchers. There's a park out there, from what I can see. If you keep walking out on Wildhorse Pkway, about two miles from start point, you get to Lost Woods Campground 55 acres. (Of note, too, a vast nature area, Government Canyon, about 25 min drive from the area generally.)

Another idea after seeing this:
The trail left for investigators to follow is confusing. Mendoza Olmos appears to have had her car keys with her when she disappeared, even though she didn’t take the car.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/us/camila-mendoza-olmos-missing-texas-teen

MMM. Why take the car keys if she wasn't taking the car? And they see her rooting around in the vehicle. What if she lost her keys, and that's what she was looking for? She may not have wanted to wake her mother, maybe when Camila goes out of camera view, she is retracing her steps for some reason, to somewhere she had been with the keys last? If the car keys are on the same ring with her house keys and multiple other keys (and they very often are for a lot of people), she might have been starting to see if she could find them on the ground. Just because the last time she drove, she had the keys "there," in the car outside, obviously, doesn't mean they would be "there" in or near the car if there are other rings on those keys and she takes them with her everywhere she goes. But it's probably one of the very first places you'd look. Just hoping she comes home safe. There are many possible scenarios here, and some are nowhere near as grim as others. (apologies on lengthy post)

 

[Charlot123]

Has anyone in LE or the family clarified the delay in Camila last being seen and LE asking for the public's assistance?

For example, if, say, my sister told me she was going her car to get something and didnt' come back - or was going for a morning walk and didn't come back - I would immediately know there was no other reason but some sort of foul play.

But with the delay here, it seems like ppl close to her thought there might be another reason she didn't immediately come back.

It is highly possible that she shared her depressive thoughts with friends more than with the parents.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Bexar County Sheriff's office does have this new footage of her walking away from her residence.
They have enhanced the lighting to see her walking.

150K views · 689 reactions | On the morning of Wednesday, December 24, 2025, 19-year-old Camila Olmos left her residence in the 11000 block of Caspian Spring on foot. She was last seen wearing Baby blue with Black Hoodie, Baby blue Pajama bottoms, Wh

On the morning of Wednesday, December 24, 2025, 19-year-old Camila Olmos left her residence in the 11000 block of Caspian Spring on foot. She was last seen wearing Baby blue with Black Hoodie, Baby...

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[Charlot123]

Was she going to visit someone she knew, possibly relatively nearby, and she didn't feel the need to bring the phone for such a short errand/trip? This is a pretty vast residential area, I'm streetviewing it now, she just left a vehicle at home, there are not many places I see in close walking distance where she could engage in self-harm and remain missing to this point. A different scenario: it's holiday time, maybe she's feeling sentimental. If she was looking around for something in her car, maybe it was something she wanted to return to someone, something of sentimental value, maybe something someone had given her, or something left behind by someone in the vehicle. OR maybe she accidentally left something of hers when out with someone else, and she's going over to see if that person can locate it. I do think that is probably her in the car image and the shadows are making it look like pants. It's definitely difficult to know for certain, though.

@Friday Fan already mentioned this doesn't seem like a stomping ground for a trafficker. Couldn't agree more on this. That location looks like a very comfortable and sprawling residential area. Cannot picture traffickers roaming around in that area looking for targets (although, I mean, who knows). But she probably did venture out into areas of more concentrated population at her age, and she may have been spotted and tracked.

And how far would she walk? About a mile away from her start point in one direction on Wildhorse Pkway, there is an intersection I streetviewed into, Schaenfield Road at Galm, it's very wooded and industrial looking at some stretches, rusty trailers, etc. Moreover, when I looked up this intersection, it evidently has a lot of vehicular traffic issues. Also, could she have been looking for any kind of medication in the vehicle? Because there's a CVS over near that Schaenfield & Galm intersection, I think There's a Circle K, likely that would be open. But why not drive? Well, if she's a walker anyway, she might have figured she'd kill incorporate an errand into her walk. With that said, though, I'm guessing (?) she went in the other direction on Wildhorse, towards that sports complex that is evidently a hub for the current searchers. There's a park out there, from what I can see. If you keep walking out on Wildhorse Pkway, about two miles from start point, you get to Lost Woods Campground 55 acres. (Of note, too, a vast nature area, Government Canyon, about 25 min drive from the area generally.)

Another idea after seeing this:
The trail left for investigators to follow is confusing. Mendoza Olmos appears to have had her car keys with her when she disappeared, even though she didn’t take the car.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/us/camila-mendoza-olmos-missing-texas-teen

MMM. Why take the car keys if she wasn't taking the car? And they see her rooting around in the vehicle. What if she lost her keys, and that's what she was looking for? She may not have wanted to wake her mother, maybe when Camila goes out of camera view, she is retracing her steps for some reason, to somewhere she had been with the keys last? If the car keys are on the same ring with her house keys and multiple other keys (and they very often are for a lot of people), she might have been starting to see if she could find them on the ground. Just because the last time she drove, she had the keys "there," in the car outside, obviously, doesn't mean they would be "there" in or near the car if there are other rings on those keys and she takes them with her everywhere she goes. But it's probably one of the very first places you'd look. Just hoping she comes home safe. There are many possible scenarios here, and some are nowhere near as grim as others. (apologies on lengthy post)

If it was self harm, often people don't want their bodies to ever be found. A car is a mark, in a way.

But looking at the road where she walked, I can't exclude a predator either, sadly.

 

[Awakening]

Maybe Cami had a burner phone on the go.

Oof. Thats a good point. Something you’d likely keep in your car so that your mother wouldn’t see it.

 

[Awakening]

I wonder if she was taking any sleeping tablets.

I once left my phone at home, walked 5km in my pyjamas before I woke up. Luckily there was a police station about 500 metres away who were able to assist me.

Turned out the new sleeping tablets and an undiagnosed sleep disorder caused it.

But I was found, and Camilla is not.

 

[indicolite22]

How far from her home was the second sighting? IF she planned to self-harm, she probably had a location in mind. Are there wooded areas or bodies of water nearby?

As far as her faith, there is info about her church online and her involvement. Nothing that would help explain her disappearance though.

 

[steeltowngirl]

i'm sure it's true to say "it's possible" here, just like it's possible in any case. but that's not newsworthy. it's just one thing on the list of possibilities along with runaway, murder, suicide, drowning, old age, and hit by falling coconut.

if some outlet starts reporting that "IT'S POSSIBLE SHE WAS TRAFFICKED" or something like that, the audience is going to think the police have a particular reason to think so, and as far as i know, they don't. that's what's irresponsible about it -- cueing the audience to think a particular thing based on nothing.

It may be equally irresponsible for LE to reveal that Camila had depression or suicidal ideation. It is unknown how they obtained that information, and whether it is accurate - or - purposeful misinformation given by someone else as a potential distraction.

JMO

 

[Lucy6226]

I wonder if she was taking any sleeping tablets.

I once left my phone at home, walked 5km in my pyjamas before I woke up. Luckily there was a police station about 500 metres away who were able to assist me.

Turned out the new sleeping tablets and an undiagnosed sleep disorder caused it.

But I was found, and Camilla is not.

I believe there's cases of people driving and cooking whilst 'asleep' on sleeping tablets. They warn you to get in bed and then take the tablets to reduce to risk of this happening. It's definitely a possibility IF she was on sleeping tablets, especially if new to them. However I would expect this to happen earlier in the night, rather than in the morning at time she would usually be up and about.

 

[Aegon_the_Conqueror]

The only people considering "human trafficking" is the Daily Mail! No local news has mentioned it. I don't think ABC, NBC or CBS have mentioned human traffic. LE is not considering it. It's a figment of the Daily Mail's imagination.

And yes, prostitution, working in strip clubs and massage parlors are now considered "human trafficking" these days.

Sheriff Salazar said that authorities are exploring the possibility of human trafficking, although he didn't indicate how high it was on their list of possibilities (I wouldn't say it's the most likely scenario, either). It wasn't the Daily Mail where I saw that, but they definitely didn't make it up. Maybe they made it seem like it was more of a possibility than it actually is, IDK.

I wouldn't consider prostitution or working in strip clubs or massage parlors to be "human trafficking" unless they were actually shipped there against their will. Massage parlors - however gross - generally seem to be more like indentured servants, if there was transit involved.

 

[Lucy6226]

Sheriff Salazar said that authorities are exploring the possibility of human trafficking. It wasn't the Daily Mail where I saw that, but they definitely didn't make it up. Maybe they made it seem like it was more of a possibility than it actually is, IDK.

I wouldn't consider prostitution or working in strip clubs or massage parlors to be "human trafficking" unless they were actually shipped there against their will. Massage parlors - however gross - generally seem to be more like indentured servants, if there was transit involved.

Modern day slavery can come under the umbrella of human trafficking, but as you say does not always include the 'movement' linked to trafficking.

I don't see it in this case at all. Nearly every case of a young woman going missing automatically gets linked to trafficking. In reality they usually target vulnerable women who are estranged from family and friends and will not be reported missing. Moo

 

[Aegon_the_Conqueror]

Modern day slavery can come under the umbrella of human trafficking, but as you say does not always include the 'movement' linked to trafficking.

I don't see it in this case at all. Nearly every case of a young woman going missing automatically gets linked to trafficking. In reality they usually target vulnerable women who are estranged from family and friends and will not be reported missing. Moo

Correct. Sex slavery doesn't always involve trafficking, and in many cases the transit itself might be a minor aspect; it could be a few miles if the victim and client are in towns on opposite sides of a state border. In those cases, it's just an excuse to get the feds involved in what would be more appropriate as a state crime... Federal crimes aren't necessarily more serious, as they're commonly perceived, they just handle different types of crimes, with a more limited scope. Now that jurisdictions can communicate more easily, there's less of a reason for the feds to take over the case. (Similarly, it was stupid for the feds to come in with a RICO case against Diddy and effectively put the kibosh on a state case.)

 

[Awakening]

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Modern day slavery can come under the umbrella of human trafficking, but as you say does not always include the 'movement' linked to trafficking.

I don't see it in this case at all. Nearly every case of a young woman going missing automatically gets linked to trafficking. In reality they usually target vulnerable women who are estranged from family and friends and will not be reported missing. Moo

Back in my day it was always that they’d joined a satanic cult.

 

[Alxx108]

Her bringing her car keys but not driving doesn’t seem strange to me. For example, I have a pair of headphones clipped to my keys. There can be other things on a keychain other than just the car keys.

 

[Pharmasgirl]

If her car had auto lights, can they activate when you use the fob to open the door?

Yes, if you have them set to Auto they will turn on when you use the FOB.

 

[Pharmasgirl]

That is not her at the car, it’s a man. His clothes don’t match the description her mother said she was wearing, dark hoodie, light blue pants and white shoes. Theirs dash cam video does show her in those clothes. Now look close theirs a black car behind hers and its tail lights are on.

So the 'guy in black clothing' is seen at her car before the dash cam vid picks her up later on the street in clothing identified by Mom... I had not seen the black car before. Thanks for pointing that out. It could be!

 

[Friday Fan]

How far from her home was the second sighting? IF she planned to self-harm, she probably had a location in mind. Are there wooded areas or bodies of water nearby?

As far as her faith, there is info about her church online and her involvement. Nothing that would help explain her disappearance though.

Two blocks from home
There is no body of water within walking distance.

 

[Friday Fan]

Was she going to visit someone she knew, possibly relatively nearby, and she didn't feel the need to bring the phone for such a short errand/trip? This is a pretty vast residential area, I'm streetviewing it now, she just left a vehicle at home, there are not many places I see in close walking distance where she could engage in self-harm and remain missing to this point. A different scenario: it's holiday time, maybe she's feeling sentimental. If she was looking around for something in her car, maybe it was something she wanted to return to someone, something of sentimental value, maybe something someone had given her, or something left behind by someone in the vehicle. OR maybe she accidentally left something of hers when out with someone else, and she's going over to see if that person can locate it. I do think that is probably her in the car image and the shadows are making it look like pants. It's definitely difficult to know for certain, though.

@Friday Fan already mentioned this doesn't seem like a stomping ground for a trafficker. Couldn't agree more on this. That location looks like a very comfortable and sprawling residential area. Cannot picture traffickers roaming around in that area looking for targets (although, I mean, who knows). But she probably did venture out into areas of more concentrated population at her age, and she may have been spotted and tracked.

And how far would she walk? About a mile away from her start point in one direction on Wildhorse Pkway, there is an intersection I streetviewed into, Schaenfield Road at Galm, it's very wooded and industrial looking at some stretches, rusty trailers, etc. Moreover, when I looked up this intersection, it evidently has a lot of vehicular traffic issues. Also, could she have been looking for any kind of medication in the vehicle? Because there's a CVS over near that Schaenfield & Galm intersection, I think There's a Circle K, likely that would be open. But why not drive? Well, if she's a walker anyway, she might have figured she'd kill incorporate an errand into her walk. With that said, though, I'm guessing (?) she went in the other direction on Wildhorse, towards that sports complex that is evidently a hub for the current searchers. There's a park out there, from what I can see. If you keep walking out on Wildhorse Pkway, about two miles from start point, you get to Lost Woods Campground 55 acres. (Of note, too, a vast nature area, Government Canyon, about 25 min drive from the area generally.)

Another idea after seeing this:
The trail left for investigators to follow is confusing. Mendoza Olmos appears to have had her car keys with her when she disappeared, even though she didn’t take the car.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/us/camila-mendoza-olmos-missing-texas-teen

MMM. Why take the car keys if she wasn't taking the car? And they see her rooting around in the vehicle. What if she lost her keys, and that's what she was looking for? She may not have wanted to wake her mother, maybe when Camila goes out of camera view, she is retracing her steps for some reason, to somewhere she had been with the keys last? If the car keys are on the same ring with her house keys and multiple other keys (and they very often are for a lot of people), she might have been starting to see if she could find them on the ground. Just because the last time she drove, she had the keys "there," in the car outside, obviously, doesn't mean they would be "there" in or near the car if there are other rings on those keys and she takes them with her everywhere she goes. But it's probably one of the very first places you'd look. Just hoping she comes home safe. There are many possible scenarios here, and some are nowhere near as grim as others. (apologies on lengthy post)

Good observations!!!! Spot on!!!

I've never been to Government Canyon. (I know. I know) However, I don't know if you can access it without paying a fee. I don't know if it has fencing around it etc. It is a state park. About four employees live on-site.

However, if she walks a few miles southward towards San Antonio, we have plenty of trails. Near her house are Culebra and Helotes Creek (a dry creek) which "flow" into the City of San Antonio. Since it is dry, it is a natural walking trail. They show up as green ribbons on the map. Sidewalks and traffic can be avoided if walking this direction. Culebra Creek can be accessed from the Wildhorse HOA Sports Park.

Although these creeks are humble, it can be difficult to locate a body, since they are rocky etc.

I don't know how accessible Lost Woods Campground is?

I heard they were searching an area of San Antonio near Helotes Creek on Saturday.

If it was me, and I wanted to end my life quietly, I would definitely head out to one of the dry creeks and avoid traffic areas. I would avoid Braun, Galm, Shaenfield, 1604 by going underneath them. She can access a dry creek directly from the HOA park and her home. As a matter of fact, Culebra Creek runs along Wildhorse Pkwy where she was spotted on the dashcam.

 

[Pharmasgirl]

Was she going to visit someone she knew, possibly relatively nearby, and she didn't feel the need to bring the phone for such a short errand/trip? This is a pretty vast residential area, I'm streetviewing it now, she just left a vehicle at home, there are not many places I see in close walking distance where she could engage in self-harm and remain missing to this point. A different scenario: it's holiday time, maybe she's feeling sentimental. If she was looking around for something in her car, maybe it was something she wanted to return to someone, something of sentimental value, maybe something someone had given her, or something left behind by someone in the vehicle. OR maybe she accidentally left something of hers when out with someone else, and she's going over to see if that person can locate it. I do think that is probably her in the car image and the shadows are making it look like pants. It's definitely difficult to know for certain, though.

@Friday Fan already mentioned this doesn't seem like a stomping ground for a trafficker. Couldn't agree more on this. That location looks like a very comfortable and sprawling residential area. Cannot picture traffickers roaming around in that area looking for targets (although, I mean, who knows). But she probably did venture out into areas of more concentrated population at her age, and she may have been spotted and tracked.

And how far would she walk? About a mile away from her start point in one direction on Wildhorse Pkway, there is an intersection I streetviewed into, Schaenfield Road at Galm, it's very wooded and industrial looking at some stretches, rusty trailers, etc. Moreover, when I looked up this intersection, it evidently has a lot of vehicular traffic issues. Also, could she have been looking for any kind of medication in the vehicle? Because there's a CVS over near that Schaenfield & Galm intersection, I think There's a Circle K, likely that would be open. But why not drive? Well, if she's a walker anyway, she might have figured she'd kill incorporate an errand into her walk. With that said, though, I'm guessing (?) she went in the other direction on Wildhorse, towards that sports complex that is evidently a hub for the current searchers. There's a park out there, from what I can see. If you keep walking out on Wildhorse Pkway, about two miles from start point, you get to Lost Woods Campground 55 acres. (Of note, too, a vast nature area, Government Canyon, about 25 min drive from the area generally.)

Another idea after seeing this:
The trail left for investigators to follow is confusing. Mendoza Olmos appears to have had her car keys with her when she disappeared, even though she didn’t take the car.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/us/camila-mendoza-olmos-missing-texas-teen

MMM. Why take the car keys if she wasn't taking the car? And they see her rooting around in the vehicle. What if she lost her keys, and that's what she was looking for? She may not have wanted to wake her mother, maybe when Camila goes out of camera view, she is retracing her steps for some reason, to somewhere she had been with the keys last? If the car keys are on the same ring with her house keys and multiple other keys (and they very often are for a lot of people), she might have been starting to see if she could find them on the ground. Just because the last time she drove, she had the keys "there," in the car outside, obviously, doesn't mean they would be "there" in or near the car if there are other rings on those keys and she takes them with her everywhere she goes. But it's probably one of the very first places you'd look. Just hoping she comes home safe. There are many possible scenarios here, and some are nowhere near as grim as others. (apologies on lengthy post)

If she was safety conscious as noted by her friends, possibly her key ring held an Attack spray to take on walks (reason to take keys with). If not, what was she supposed to do with her keys? Bring them back into the house if she didn't want to take them with OR leave them in the car? It's NEVER recommended to leave keys in your car...anywhere. But everyone has their own habits. What was hers?
I hope and pray she's found safe somewhere. She sounds like a bright girl, loved by family & friends...There's still so much we don't know and only so much info LE can release.

 

[Shiloh0404!]

That statement from her mom strikes me as so odd. Does she walk or wander off a lot in the early morning hours?

Agree why would she be out walking that early in the morning and if she was walking I would think she would've grabbed her phone as anyone would