Thirteen-year-old Izar Isaac Godinez Sanchez was last seen in Apopka, Florida, on November 25, 2015. He was listed as a male juvenile missing from Orange County, with NamUs recording his case as MP31997 and also associating it with NCMEC case number 1260846. At the time he disappeared, Izar was described as a young teenager with brown hair and brown eyes, approximately 4 feet 10 inches tall and around 100 pounds, details that placed him firmly in the category of a child whose absence required
urgent public attention. His disappearance began as a missing-child case out of Apopka, and the limited public records available focused on identifying information, the place and date of last contact, and the effort to circulate his case so that anyone who had seen him could come forward.
Public missing-person listings later noted that Izar may have left the local area, with one widely repeated case notice stating that he may have traveled to North Carolina. Because he was only 13 years old, that possibility carried serious concern: even when a young person is believed to have left voluntarily, their age makes them vulnerable to unsafe situations, adults who may exploit them, and the difficulty of navigating unfamiliar places without protection or stable support. Case summaries and public notices preserved the essential facts rather than offering a detailed timeline, leaving many questions unanswered about where Izar went after he was last seen, who he may have been with, and what circumstances surrounded his departure from Apopka. An age-progressed image was also circulated in later public discussion of the case, reflecting the effort to keep his identity recognizable as time passed.
As the years went on, Izar’s name remained attached to public missing-person databases and community case pages, which kept the basic details of his disappearance visible even though the publicly available record remained sparse. Those listings consistently tied the case to Apopka, Florida, and to the same last-seen date, while repeating the same physical description and identifying case numbers. The absence of a detailed public narrative meant the case was known mostly through its official identifiers and short missing-child notices, rather than through a full account of the day he vanished or the investigative steps that followed. For a child’s family and community, that kind of uncertainty can be especially difficult, because the public record offers only fragments while loved ones are left to live with the larger emotional weight of not knowing.
Official reporting has since indicated that Izar Godinez Sanchez was found alive, and his case is no longer an active missing-person case. The exact date and circumstances of his recovery are not clearly available in public sources, so those details should not be overstated. What can be said is that Izar’s case began with the disappearance of a 13-year-old boy from Apopka on November 25, 2015, moved through years of public missing-child notices and database listings, and ultimately ended with the most important outcome families hope for in a missing juvenile case: he was located alive. The available overview is therefore one of concern, public attention, limited released details, and eventual resolution, with the core facts centered on a young boy who disappeared from Apopka and was later reported found alive.Last Seen: Nov 25, 2015
