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TORREON, N.M. \u2014<\/p>\nWhat happened to Orlando King?<\/p>\n
Orlando King disappeared from Torreon, New Mexico, on Christmas Day 2022. His family continues to advocate for information that could bring him home.<\/p>\n
TORREON, N.M. \u2014<\/p>\n
The family of Orlando King has spent more than three years searching for answers since he went missing on Christmas Day 2022.<\/p>\n
King’s sisters shared his story during AdvocacyCon, a true-crime conference held at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Families from across the country attended the event to advocate for missing and murdered loved ones, connect with others and find support.<\/p>\n
Georgianna Castillo said she attended the conference to keep her brother’s name and the case in the public eye.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been searching for him,” Castillo said. “We want to know what happened.”<\/p>\n
King, known to his family as “Shorty,” was last seen leaving a store in Torreon, a Navajo Nation community between Crownpoint and Cuba, New Mexico. He was reportedly seen later at a nearby home.<\/p>\n
King was 42 when he disappeared. He is 6 feet, 1 inch tall and weighed about 170 pounds at the time.<\/p>\n
His sisters describe him as a caring, outgoing person who enjoyed basketball, fishing and working on vehicles. They said he often encouraged relatives, listened to their problems and found ways to lift their spirits.<\/p>\n
“He was very kind. He was always happy and humorous,” Castillo said. “If anybody was having a bad day, he was one of those people who would come in and make it happy and joyful.”<\/p>\n
She said King loved his children, nieces and nephews. His hugs are among the things his family misses the most.<\/p>\n
Janice Castillo said her brother also helped keep the family close by organizing activities and encouraging relatives to spend time together.<\/p>\n
“He was always there to listen to your problems,” she said. “He was always there to comfort you when you needed it. He was a really kind person. We miss him.”<\/p>\n
The uncertainty surrounding King’s disappearance has weighed heavily on his large, close-knit family, particularly his mother.<\/p>\n
“We just hope that he comes home because it’s really hard on my parents, especially my mom,” Janice Castillo said. “She misses him so much.”<\/p>\n
She said the family feels unable to move forward without knowing what happened, but relatives remain committed to searching and advocating for him.<\/p>\n
“We’re not giving up,” she said. “We’re going to continue to move forward to get more information for my brother.”<\/p>\n
Georgianna Castillo said meeting other families at AdvocacyCon reminded her that her family is not alone.<\/p>\n
“There are a lot of other missing people, missing women and relatives,” she said. “We all come together, and that makes us not give up hope. We\u2019re all supporting each other, and that\u2019s a really big thing.”<\/p>\n
King’s family is asking anyone with information to come forward, even if the detail appears insignificant.<\/p>\n
“If anybody knows something, even little details about where he went or what happened to him, I really want that to be brought to our family,” Janice said.<\/p>\n
King has a medical condition that requires critical care. Anyone with information about his disappearance is urged to call Navajo Nation police at 505-786-2050<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happened to Orlando King? Orlando King disappeared from Torreon, New Mexico, on Christmas Day 2022. His family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[159183,1324,1089,159189,159190,159185,6888,159184,4546,159186,159192,19875,159193,139,141,159187,140,670,152835,61664,2489,2393,159188,159191],"class_list":["post-400007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-advocacycon","tag-brother","tag-family","tag-georgianna-castillo","tag-janice-castillo","tag-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-people","tag-missing-persons","tag-mmip","tag-more-information","tag-navajo-nation","tag-navajo-nation-community","tag-new-mexico","tag-niece","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-king","tag-orlando-news","tag-other","tag-relative","tag-sister","tag-thing","tag-time","tag-torreon","tag-true-crime-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}