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The Disappearance of Reina Morales Rojas (Massachusetts)

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.

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On November 26th, 2022, 41 year old Rayna Morales Rojas got into a car in East Boston, Massachusetts, and sometime later was dropped off in nearby Somerville.

0:15.0

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

0:20.0

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, Unidos, and Massachusetts hadn't stepped in to help bring attention

0:35.6

to her case, Reyna's family wonders if her story would have ever made the news.

0:41.4

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

0:47.2

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

0:56.6

for attention on her case that took far too long to receive in the first place. I'm Kylie Lowe and with Lucy Panetta this is the case

1:06.4

of Rayna Morales Rojas on Dark Down East. 41 year old

1:19.4

old Rayna Morales Rojas came to the United States from El Salvador just after Mother's Day in May of

1:25.5

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

1:34.4

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

1:39.6

until she could be together with her children again. She'd been a police officer back in El Salvador, but in Boston,

1:47.6

Rana worked in food services and catering at Logan International Airport.

1:55.0

Being so far away from her family, Reyna stayed in touch with her sister and children almost constantly.

1:59.0

November 26, 2022 was no different for Rayna and Alicia.

2:04.4

They had a long conversation earlier in the day as they usually did, but when

2:08.8

Alicia tried to contact her sister the next morning, she didn't hear back. It immediately struck her as odd.

2:17.0

Alicia tried everything to get in touch with her sister that day.

2:21.2

Texts, what's-ap, phone calls, but Rayna was radio silent.

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