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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Cold Case: Missing Isabel Celis 5 years

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Isabel Celis disappeared from her family’s Tuscon home sometime in the early morning hours of April 20, 2012. Despite a massive search and intense police investigation, the child is still missing nearly five years later. An open screen suggests the six-year-old was snatched from her bedroom through the window. The father’s remarkably calm call to a 911 dispatcher initially drew attention to him. Investigators have also looked at a man who lived with the family for a while. Nancy Grace discusses the case in this episode.

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0:00.0

I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

0:09.1

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

0:13.6

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

0:18.0

We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,

0:25.2

the Apple Podcast app or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

0:37.0

It was Saturday morning when the family says they discovered the six-year-old missing

0:40.9

from her bedroom, a window open, and screen detached.

0:44.4

Hello, I need to report a missing child. I believe she was adopted from a house.

0:49.2

The father Sergio, who appeared so calm on his 911 call, told police that he fell asleep

0:55.1

on the couch watching a pre-recorded baseball game. This is crime stories with Nancy Grace.

1:01.9

Detectives right about a witness telling them that a guy who was staying with the family owed

1:06.6

someone a lot of money and that's why she was taken. Please, please, to the person or persons

1:14.2

who have these have it, tell us your demands, tell us what you want.

1:20.0

Law enforcement experts say it is statistically likely someone known to the family is involved.

1:28.2

Imagine you get up first thing in the morning. Get ready and go to work.

1:34.4

Don't want to wake up your children, so you don't open their door. You just get ready and go,

1:40.6

because you're working to support them. It always makes me feel good if I have to get up and fly

1:46.8

out of town or get up and do an early early morning TV hit. It makes me feel good to know

1:54.4

my twins are still asleep snoozing away while mommy works. Well, that is what happened the morning

2:04.0

that Isabella Celice mom got up. She got up and left the home around 6.30 that morning.

2:11.9

She never saw her daughter alive again. She's never seen her daughter alive again. Repeat.

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