Clarisa Diego Gaspar Missing Person Case

Jul 18, 2025

Jul 21, 2025

Clarisa

Diego Gaspar

4

24 inches

36 inches

30 lbs

100 lbs

Hispanic / Latino

Female

In the late summer of 2020, a heart-wrenching story began to unfold in the community of Algood, Tennessee, involving a very young child named Clarisa Diego Gaspar. On August 31, 2020, at an age when she was just beginning to experience the world, Clarisa vanished under deeply concerning and unusual circumstances. At the time of her disappearance, she was a Hispanic female infant with black hair and brown eyes. The case is particularly distressing due to the vague nature of the events surrounding her disappearance and the lack of concrete information available to law enforcement and the public. The circumstances leading to Clarisa’s disappearance are profoundly troubling. It is understood that in August 2020, she was informally adopted by an unknown adult female. This exchange occurred without any legal proceedings or official documentation, effectively erasing any formal record of her new caregiver's identity or whereabouts. This lack of a paper trail has created a significant obstacle for investigators, leaving them with no clear starting point to trace the woman who took Clarisa. The informal nature of the adoption means that there is no known location for the child, and her well-being has been a matter of grave concern since she was last seen. The investigation into Clarisa Diego Gaspar's disappearance is being handled by the Cookeville Police Department. The case is complicated by the fact that there is no specific information about where Clarisa and the unidentified woman may have gone. The lack of identifying details for the woman, combined with the absence of any legal record of the adoption, has left the investigation with very few leads to follow. The case serves as a painful reminder of the vulnerabilities of children in situations of informal and undocumented care arrangements. The central mystery remains the identity of the woman who took Clarisa and the child's current location and condition, a question that has haunted those involved in the search for years.

Aug 31, 2020

Cookeville

Tennessee

Putnam County

Cookeville

No

172086

Cookeville Police Department

Cookeville

Tennessee

Putnam County

38501

Joseph Williams

Detective Sergeant

10 East Broad Street, Tennessee

9315262126

Local

Law Enforcement

2025003699

2025-06-25

Cookeville Police Department

Black

Brown

Brown

07/07/2026