Karla Azucena Garcia Ferrufino was 15 years old when she was last known to have contact with others on April 15, 2024, in the Hyattsville area of Prince George’s County, Maryland, with the last location listed as Adelphi, Maryland 20783. She was identified in NamUs as a Hispanic / Latino female, about 5 feet 5 inches tall and 110 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. The public case information gave very few circumstances about what happened, describing the location of her disappearance as unknown and listing no confirmed clothing, accessories, transportation, scars, marks, tattoos, or other distinctive physical features. In a case with so little publicly released detail, the most important known facts were her name, age, physical description, last known area, and the date she was last seen.
Her case was entered as NamUs missing person case MP125529 and was created in July 2024, several months after the April 2024 date of last contact. The investigating agency was the Prince George’s County Police Department, with the case assigned under agency case number 24-0022074 and reported to police on April 17, 2024. The police department’s Central Region office in Landover was listed as the case-owning agency, and the public agency contact was Officer Blanca Cruz. Prince George’s County’s own public guidance for missing-person matters directs people to call 911 when there is an emergency or safety concern, and otherwise to use the county’s Public Safety Communications non-emergency number at 301-352-1200 for police dispatch; the same county guidance lists the Central Regional Investigation Division as a point of contact for missing-person case status requests.
The information available online reflected a quiet and sparse public record rather than a case with many released developments. No public narrative in the supplied NamUs data explained where Karla had been going, who she was with, what she was wearing, whether she may have left voluntarily, or whether police believed she was in danger. The lack of those details does not lessen the seriousness of a missing-child case; it means only that the publicly available record was limited. NamUs itself describes its system as a national centralized repository and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases, used to help investigators and families share and compare information across jurisdictions.
The case is no longer listed as an active missing-person case in the supplied case data because the case resolution status is recorded as Alive. That means Karla Garcia Ferrufino was found alive. The exact date she was located is unknown from the available information, so no specific recovery date can be stated. Her NamUs lifecycle status is listed as archived, which is consistent with a resolved case record rather than an ongoing public missing-person alert.
Karla’s case began as the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl last seen in the Hyattsville/Adelphi area of Prince George’s County on April 15, 2024, was reported to the Prince George’s County Police Department two days later, and was later documented publicly through NamUs as MP125529. The public record gave only a brief description of her appearance and almost no details about the circumstances, leaving the early account of her disappearance incomplete and undoubtedly painful for those who cared about her. The most important resolution, however, is that the available case data records Karla as found alive; in overview, this was a Maryland missing-child case with limited public details, investigated by Prince George’s County Police, later archived after Karla was located alive.
Last Seen: Apr 15, 2024
