On May 9, 2026, 15-year-old Escarleth Vasquez and her one-year-old son, Alejandro, disappeared from their foster home in Converse, a suburb of San Antonio, Texas. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office was notified and began an investigation into their whereabouts. Escarleth was last seen wearing a black hoodie and gray pants, while her son was dressed in all black.
Descriptions provided by law enforcement noted Escarleth as being 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighing around 180 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Initial reports from the sheriff's office indicated that the last contact with the mother and son was around 1:00 p.m. on the day they went missing.
As the search for Escarleth and her young child intensified, further details about the circumstances of their disappearance emerged. Investigators discovered a note left behind by the teenager addressed to her foster parents. In the note, she stated she was leaving and requested that they not contact the authorities. She also asked for her belongings to be sent to her home country of Honduras, leading investigators to believe she was not a U.S. citizen. Authorities also received information that the two might be traveling in a red pickup truck and could have journeyed as far as Houston. For over a month, their whereabouts remained unknown, causing significant concern for their well-being.
More than a month after they were last seen, the Texas Department of Public Safety issued an AMBER Alert for Escarleth and Alejandro. The alert was activated after the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services provided new information that met the criteria for an alert, which requires a reasonable belief of abduction and imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death. The public was urged to be on the lookout for the missing mother and son and the red pickup truck they were believed to be in. A few days after the AMBER Alert was issued, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced that both Escarleth and her son, Alejandro, had been found. Official reports from the investigating agency confirmed their safe recovery, though the exact date and details surrounding their discovery have not been widely publicized. The case, which began with a concerning disappearance and a cross-state search, concluded with the positive news that the young mother and her child were no longer considered missing.Last Seen: May 9, 2026
