{"id":385924,"date":"2026-07-25T03:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385924\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:19:07","slug":"16-years-later-family-marks-pauline-diazs-80th-birthday-and-praying-for-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385924\/","title":{"rendered":"16 years later, family marks Pauline Diaz\u2019s 80th birthday and praying for answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Tx \u2014 Pauline Diaz disappeared without a trace nearly 16 years ago. Today, on what would have been her 80th birthday her family gathered in front of her home to sing her happy birthday and to plead with whoever took her to let her come home.<\/p>\n<p>Pauline vanished from the H-E-B on Southeast Military Dr. on Dec. 7, 2010. H-E-B surveillance video showed Pauline leaving the store and walking to her truck. She stopped to speak with an unidentified woman and then was never seen again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom, I want you to wish you a happy birthday,\u201d Juanita Diaz said. I\u2019ll never stop looking for you. You\u2019re always in my heart everywhere I go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pauline\u2019s daughter Juanita Diaz says the past 15 years without her mother have been rough, and the pain of not knowing what happened to her mother has grown stronger over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel that my mother has passed,\u201d Diaz said. \u201cMy word to the public is I know that someone out there knows where\u2019s she\u2019s at. All we want to know is where she is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crimestoppers is offering $25,000 reward for information leading to Pauline\u2019s location.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Bexar County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Tx \u2014 Pauline Diaz disappeared without a trace nearly 16 years ago. Today, on what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-385924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}