This series of episodes explores the many details of the disappearance and death of 6-year-old Isabel Celis in 2012 and the kidnapping and murder of 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez in 2014.
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Isabel was last seen by her parents at 11:00 pm on April 21, when she was put to bed. Police said her father found her missing the next morning. Police completed a search of Sellis’ home at Block 5600 East 12th Street near East Broadway and South Cracroft Road around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, but would not comment on what was found. rice field.
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Thousands of leaflets were distributed. Landfills as well as lakes and basins were searched. Isabel’s parents, Sergio Celis and Becky Celis, have faced some criticism for not speaking to the media or the public about their daughter’s search. More money was poured into the search effort, but years yielded no leads.
Then, on June 3, 2014, two years after Isabel Celis first went missing, another girl, Maribel Gonzalez, 13, told her mother that she was going to a friend’s house. Her body was found three days later near West Abra Valley Road by a Pima County sheriff’s deputy who responded to a call about suspicious activity. Days after her body was found, the Pima County medical examiner ruled her death a homicide by unspecified means.
In March 2017, nearly five years after her disappearance, Isabel’s body was found in rural Pima County. Police Chief Chris Magnus said this was no coincidence. An autopsy later that year confirmed it as a homicide. The recovered bones have been compiled from the report, but included drawings of the skeletal remains show part of the pelvis and several skulls that are darker than the rest of the body.
Christopher Clements was indicted on both charges, and the first of two trials for the kidnapping and murder of Maribel Gonzalez began in September 2022.
And in February 2023, Clements’ trial against Isabel Celis began.
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