Susan Velasco Espinosa was 37 years old when she was last seen in Phoenix, Arizona, on January 1, 2006. She is described in official missing-person records as a Hispanic/Latina woman, approximately 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing about 155 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Her case is identified as NamUs MP158578, and the Phoenix Police Department is listed as the investigating agency.
The available record places her last known location in Phoenix, Maricopa County, but provides no specific address or more precise location. Publicly available records also do not provide a detailed account of what she was wearing, whether she was traveling in a particular vehicle, or what personal belongings she may have had with her when she disappeared. The limited information surrounding the beginning of the case makes the circumstances difficult to reconstruct, leaving the exact sequence of events around her disappearance unknown.
According to the available case information, investigators have considered the possibility that Susan may have traveled from Phoenix, Arizona, or from Texas to Mexico. The wording of the official record is tentative, and it does not establish that she actually reached Mexico, where she may have gone, why she may have traveled, or with whom she may have been traveling. No confirmed destination, transportation method, companion, or subsequent sighting is identified in the public case information. The record likewise does not provide a documented explanation for why she may have left Phoenix or Texas, and there are no publicly listed circumstances of disappearance that would allow those unanswered questions to be resolved. Because of these gaps, it is important to distinguish the possibility noted by investigators from established facts: the available records support that Mexico was considered a possible destination, but they do not publicly establish that Susan entered Mexico or what happened to her afterward.
The case was formally reported to the Phoenix Police Department much later, with the agency record identifying April 16, 2026, as the date the department reported the case. The Phoenix Police Department remains identified as the case owner, and Detective Daniel Nonnemacher is listed as the departmental contact associated with the investigation. The case was subsequently published in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System where it is catalogued as Missing Person / NamUs #MP158578. The current public record contains family-provided photographs intended to assist with identification and provides basic physical descriptors, including her Hispanic/Latina ethnicity, brown hair, brown eyes, height, and weight. No distinctive physical features, clothing description, accessories, transportation information, DNA information, or recovery circumstances are publicly supplied in the available record. The absence of these details does not establish that they were never known to investigators or family members; it means that they are not provided in the publicly accessible case information examined for this account.
More than two decades after the recorded last contact, the publicly documented circumstances remain sparse. The available sources do not identify a confirmed sighting after January 1, 2006, a verified location in Mexico or elsewhere, or a documented explanation for what ultimately happened to Susan. They also do not provide a publicly documented resolution identifying her as alive or deceased. The case therefore remains presented in the available records as a missing-person investigation, with substantial uncertainty surrounding the period immediately following her last known contact. Susan's age at the time she disappeared, her identity as a 37-year-old Hispanic/Latina woman, her connection to Phoenix, the possibility of travel involving Texas or Mexico, and the continuing lack of a confirmed subsequent whereabouts form the central known elements of the case. In overview, Susan Velasco Espinosa disappeared from the known record after last being seen in Phoenix on January 1, 2006, and despite the passage of many years and the later publication of her case through NamUs, the publicly available information does not establish where she went, what became of her, or where she is today.Last Seen: Jan 1, 2006
