Summary based on the NamUs case record (MP28563)
Maria del Carmen Escudero Gonzalez was a 67-year-old woman last seen in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 31, 2013. Her missing person record was entered into NamUs as case MP28563, identifying San Juan as the place of disappearance and listing the date of last contact as October 31, 2013. Publicly available online records do not provide a detailed narrative of the moments leading up to her disappearance, where in San Juan she was last observed, who last saw her, or whether she was believed to
have left on foot, by vehicle, or under other circumstances. What is clear from the available record is that Maria’s disappearance became part of the official missing persons system, preserving her name, the date she was last known to have contact, and the location connected to her case.
The lack of publicly released details leaves much of Maria’s story painfully incomplete. In many missing person cases, the absence of information can make the search even harder for families and investigators, because there may be few public clues to help identify where someone went, who they may have encountered, or what concerns existed at the time they vanished. In Maria’s case, online sources do not provide confirmed information about clothing, belongings, medical needs, travel plans, or a known destination. Her case remained documented through NamUs, a national clearinghouse used for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed persons cases in the United States, including Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico’s missing and unidentified persons work has also been connected publicly to the Instituto de Ciencias Forenses and NamUs, with reporting noting that the system assists the ICF in efforts involving missing persons and unidentified remains. That broader context matters because Maria’s case was not simply an isolated name in a database; it was part of a larger effort to account for people who disappeared and to help return answers to families who had waited through uncertainty. Public reporting has described Puerto Rico as having missing persons listed in NamUs and hundreds of unidentified deceased individuals whose identities authorities have worked to resolve.
The investigating agency has reported that Maria del Carmen Escudero Gonzalez was found deceased. Because publicly available online information does not provide a confirmed exact date of recovery or detailed circumstances surrounding how she was located, those details should not be stated as fact. Her case is therefore best understood as a disappearance from San Juan in late October 2013 that later ended in the heartbreaking confirmation of her death. The available public record is limited, but the essential overview is that Maria was a 67-year-old woman reported missing from San Juan, Puerto Rico; her case was preserved through official missing-person channels; and authorities ultimately reported that she had been located deceased, bringing an end to the active missing-person phase of the case while leaving much of the public narrative sparse and somber.Last Seen: Oct 31, 2013
