GLOBE, AZ (AZFamily) — A group of volunteers fanned out in the Miami-Globe area Saturday, turning over rocks and knocking on doors, searching for any sign of 21-year-old Isabella Comas.
She has been missing for nearly three weeks from Avondale.
The family’s private investigator, Chris Castorena, organized the search in the area he says was the last place there was any trace of her.
“We have no idea where she’s at,” Castorena said. “The main thing is that we find Isabella. Due to an LPR, license plate reader, it showed it was here.”
Police performed a separate search last week, and those steps yielded no results.
“We have friends, family, volunteers of the community,” Castorena said, now taking their own steps. “The family is overwhelmed with grief. They miss her very much. They say she is a loving daughter and a good friend to everyone, so this is a shock.”
For some, like Gabe Hernandez, today’s steps are personal.
“We knew Isabella. She had come over for Thanksgiving. We’ve taken her on the family trip. She was my daughter’s best friend in high school,” Hernandez said.
He, alongside his family, headed into the mountains, hiking through steep terrain overlooking Globe and Miami. They had help from his dog, Luna, to try to pick up on Comas’ scent.
“That phone must have pinged out here somewhere,” Hernandez said.
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Teams used side-by-sides and four-wheelers to get to the hardest parts of the desert.
It’s the lengths you go, keeping faith with each step for those you love.
“She was always telling my girls, ‘I appreciate your mom and dad,’” Hernandez said. “If it takes all day, it takes all day. I have all day.”
While teams didn’t find Comas today, they are holding on to hope. They will be out tomorrow as well, using scuba teams for any of the waterways and drones to look at the area from above.
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