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MISSING: Reina Morales Rojas

Dark Downeast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

MASSACHUSETTS, 2022: On November 26, 2022, 41-year old Reina Morales Rojas got into a car in East Boston, MA and some time later was dropped off in nearby Somerville. That’s the last time anyone had seen or heard from the mother of two.

Though she was reported missing soon after, the public didn’t hear anything about Reina’s disappearance for almost two months, and if advocates like Lucy Pineda of Latinos Unidos en Massachusetts hadn’t stepped in to help bring attention to her case, Reina’s family wonders if her story would’ve ever made the news.

Now four months later, Reina still isn’t home and information is scarce. Her children and sister in El Salvador who once spoke to her every single day await any sign that she is okay, all while fighting for attention on her case that took far too long to receive.

Anyone with information regarding her whereabouts is advised to contact 911 or A-7 Detectives at (617) 343-4324. If you would prefer to share information anonymously you can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-(494)-TIPS or by texting the word 'TIP' to CRIME (27463).

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0:00.0

On November 26, 2022, 41-year-old Reyna Morales-Rohas got into a car in East Boston, Massachusetts,

0:11.6

and sometime later was dropped off in nearby Somerville.

0:15.7

That's the last time anyone had seen or heard from the mother of two.

0:21.0

Though she was reported missing soon after, the public didn't hear anything about Reyna's

0:26.2

disappearance for almost two months.

0:29.3

And if advocates like Lucy Pineda of Latinos, Unitos, and Massachusetts hadn't stepped

0:34.4

in to help bring attention to her case, Reyna's family wonders if her story would have ever

0:39.8

made the news.

0:41.2

Now, four months later, Reyna still isn't home, and information is scarce.

0:47.3

Her children and sister in El Salvador, who once spoke to her every single day, await

0:53.3

any sign that she is okay.

0:56.0

All while fighting for attention on her case, that took far too long to receive in the

1:00.7

first place.

1:02.9

I'm Kylie Lowe, and with Lucy Pineda, this is the case of Reyna Morales-Rohas, on Dark

1:09.2

Down East.

1:18.8

Forty-one-year-old Reyna Morales-Rohas came to the United States from El Salvador just

1:23.6

after Mother's Day in May of 2022, making her home in East Boston.

1:29.7

She is a mother of two children, but Reyna had to leave the kids behind with their aunt,

1:34.9

Reyna's sister Alicia Morales, to find work and a better life in Massachusetts until she

1:40.5

could be together with her children again.

1:43.4

She'd been a police officer back in El Salvador, but in Boston, Reyna worked in food services

1:49.5

in catering at Logan International Airport.

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