Marisol Espinosa, 34 - Dallas, Texas (12/29/15)

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http://texasequusearch.org/?p=18246

34 year-old Marisol Espinosa was last seen 8:00 a.m. on the morning of December 29th 2015 in Dallas, Texas. Marisol was thought to be wearing her black hairdresser uniform. Marisol has the tattoo of a butterfly on her back, and the tattoo of a rose on the outside of her left ankle. Marisol was driving her dark gray (almost black), 2004 Chevy Tahoe with Texas license plates of GMV8209. If you have seen anyone driving her vehicle since the time of her disappearance, if you have seen Marisol since her disappearance, if you know of her current whereabouts, or if you have any information concerning her disappearance; please contact the Dallas Police Department at (214) 671-3584 – or call Texas EquuSearch at (281) 309-9500.

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This is article is a week old, but has some background.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/01/15/tips-in-dallas-missing-mom-case-coming-from-unlikely-source/
Tips In Dallas Missing Mom Case Coming From Unlikely Source
January 15, 2016


 
Espinosa, a mother of three, vanished December 29th after leaving her home in Pleasant Grove. She was headed to work at the Toni & Guy salon at North Park Center, but never arrived. Since then, family, friends, and even strangers have continued to search and plan to do so again tomorrow morning.

Meanwhile, Dallas Private Investigator John Rosa has become an accidental conduit for tips.

“They’re all similar in the sense that they’re contacting me because they’re afraid to do anything else,” says Rosa, CEO of the EJR Agency. Rosa appeared in a CBS11 news story last week about where else Dallas police should be looking for clues. He says after the story aired, his phone started ringing.

“You do have non-U.S. citizens residing in that neighborhood,” says Rosa, “they’re afraid of the authorities. They may have warrants or tickets. They just can’t identify with the police.”

Then, an anonymous letter arrived. We will not disclose the letter’s full contents as clearly the writer is afraid—referencing a suspect and knowing “what he and his family are capable of.”

Rosa says he is not surprised at the level of concern. “If the house can burn, maybe their house can burn, too. People are afraid, sure. They care for the mother. They care for the kids, they want to help. But they don’t want to endanger their lives in helping.”

Two weeks before Espinosa vanished, her house burned in a fire that family members believed was suspicious. Originally ruled an electrical fire, arson investigators have since reopened their investigation. However, a spokesperson this week declined to provide updates, telling CBS 11 that the results of the review would not be disclosed as they are now part of a police investigation.


 

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http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/dallas-county/2016/01/21/judge-places-kids-missing-mom-care-grandmother/79114210/
Judge places kids of missing mom in care of grandmother
January 21, 2016

DALLAS — There were two people not present during Thursday’s custody hearing for three-year-old Felix and five-year-old Carrina Valdez.

Their mother, Marisol Espinosa, who's been missing since Dec. 29, and their father, Faustino Valdez, who disappeared after police began having asking him questions about Marisol’s whereabouts.

During the hearing, it was revealed for the first time that Valdez is now a wanted man. A probation violation warrant connected to two felony theft cases was issued last week. According to a court order signed by District Judge Jennifer Bennett, prosecutors now consider Valdez a “wanted fugitive and a flight risk.” Bennett ordered that the motion seeking to revoke his probation be sealed.

Marisol's mother, Rosemary Espinosa, had come to court seeking temporary custody of the children which she successfully was awarded at the conclusion of Thursday’s hearing. She also was successful in getting family court Associate Judge Regina Moore to order that Valdez have no contact with the children.
 
During the hearing before Moore, Rosemary Espinosa told the judge that  Valdez disappeared Jan. 3.  She also said that on the day he disappeared, it was his parents that picked him up from the house on Aurora Drive. He made no attempt to take the children he had with Marisol with him.

Marisol Espinosa also has an 8-year-old daughter. Valdez is not the father of that child.

Rosemary Espinosa also said that she witnessed Valdez attempt to strangle her daughter about a year ago.

“He was trying to choke her,” she told the judge.

Valdez was arrested, but the case was dropped because Marisol declined to prosecute him.

At the time of her disappearance, Marisol was living with Valdez, her ex-boyfriend, because of a fire that had damaged the house she lived in a couple of weeks prior. Rosemary Espinosa was out of town at the time.

Valdez has said Marisol left for work that morning. He was the last person to see her alive. Her family members found her missing Chevy Tahoe in a nearby apartment complex with her purse still inside.

Rosemary Espinosa  told Judge Moore that the family has since learned that Valdez quit his job in the days preceding Marisol’s disappearance. She said she believes that he has ties to South Texas and Midland, and they believe that he could have fled there.

She also told the judge that detectives have told her that Valdez has refused to cooperate with them.

Veronica Walls, Marisol’s aunt, said family members were surprised to learn that he had quit his job. They say they found out about a week after Marisol went amiss.

“We knew he had a job, but the circumstances between him and his employer we did not know,” Walls said. “Now that we kind of know it adds more to the hmmm, what’s going on?”

A co-worker, Cheryl Tolbert, said that a week before the fire, Valdez showed up to the hair salon where Marisol worked. He had made an appointment with her under a fake name because Marisol had been refusing to see him.
 

One family member said Valdez showed her a text showing that he had texted his workplace about 5 a.m. on the morning she disappeared saying that he would not be at work.

When Marisol didn’t show up at work, co-workers – worried about her safety – began trying to find her. Tolbert said she texted Marisol that morning but she never responded. Valdez was contacted and he insisted that she had left for work, co-worker say.

Family members say they saw another text on Valdez’s phone showing that he texted Marisol about 10:50 a.m. that morning, saying “Hey Beautiful” and asking her to come home. By that point, they say he had already been contacted by her whereabouts.

In granting temporary custody and an order preventing Valdez from having contact with the children, Moore found that the father abandoned the “care and custody” of the children to Rosemary Espinosa. She also cited the fact that he quit his job, his prior domestic violence history and the danger of international abduction as other factors in her decision.

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http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/dallas-county/2016/01/23/family-getting-help-search-marisol-espinosa/79253188/
Family getting help in search for Marisol Espinosa
January 23, 2016

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https://www.facebook.com/Helpusfindmarisolespinosa/

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They have found her remains 

http://www.fox4news.com/news/102867612-story

 

A body discovered over the weekend has been identified as a missing Pleasant Grove mother.

Dallas police are calling the death of Marisol Espinosa a homicide, but they have not said how they believe she died. Police are awaiting a cause of death from the Dallas County Medical Examiner.

Her remains were found Sunday morning in a wooded area of southeast Dallas County along Dowdy Ferry Road. Her family had searched there previously.