Sofia Juarez

Four-year-old Sofia Juarez was last seen on February 4, 2003 in Kennewick, Washington playing in her bedroom with some of her young uncles.

Jose Lopez Torres, the boyfriend of her grandmother, Ignacia Prado Juarez was going to a nearby convenience store and asked the kids if they wanted to go with him. Sofia decided to join him while the other kids stayed at home; however, Jose thought that Sofia changed her mind about going to the store and left without her.

Sofia asked her mother, Maria Juarez for a dollar to spend at the store. Maria watched her leave the room and heard her close the door as she left the house. When Jose came back home from the store at 9:45 p.m., he said that Sofia didn't go with him and Maria reported her missing. Her disappearance was initially treated as an abduction and an Amber Alert was issued, but it was cancelled after she wasn't found within 36 hours; however, the police believe that she was kidnapped.

A 10-year-old relative of Sofia's said that he saw Sofia walking down the driveway at the time she went missing and was accompanied by a man who was dressed in a black sweatshirt, black pants and black shoes; however, this sighting hasn't been confirmed.

The police later announced that they were looking for a mid-'90s model full-sized faded orange van driven by a white man with a thick blonde beard and between 35 to 40 years old. A witness remembered seeing the van around the time Sofia went missing, but it is unknown if it the van is connected to Sofia's case.

In 2021 (eighteen years after Sofia was reported missing), investigators said that a witness saw a girl matching Sofia's description walking down the sidewalk on south Washington Street near east 15th Avenue between 8:00 and 9:15 p.m. the night she went missing and that a person led her away. A light blue, silver or gray late '70s or early '80s full-sized panel van with no side windows was stopped on a nearby side street.

A description of the possible suspect in Sofia's disappearance was later released and it was revealed to be a young Hispanic boy between 11 and 14 years old back in 2003 who was about five feet tall with short, wavy dark-colored hair, large hands and a "baby face." The boy took Sofia by the hand and led her away towards the van, laughing as she was crying.

Maria believed that Sofia was kidnapped by somebody that she knew and trusted. She died from natural causes in 2009 at the age of 26. Sofia's case is classified as a non-family abduction.