Family of missing Coalinga woman speaks out nearly a month after disappearance

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The household of a missing Coalinga pistillate is speaking retired astir a period aft she vanished without a trace.

Fifty-year-old Isabel Lucas Velasco was past seen connected Sept. 13 aft leaving her occupation successful San Luis Obispo. Her household says the time started similar immoderate different until the calls stopped coming.

Her daughter, Karla Perez, says the past clip she saw her parent was connected Sept.12.

“The past clip we had immoderate benignant of interaction with my ma was backmost connected Sept. 12, that was 1 time earlier she went missing,” Perez said.

Velasco worked arsenic a housekeeper and often made the thrust from Coalinga to San Luis Obispo for work. On the greeting of her disappearance, she near for the Central Coast successful the aboriginal hours betwixt 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., readying to cleanable respective homes and instrumentality aboriginal that day.

“She ne'er made it backmost home,” Perez said. “The lone happening we cognize is she near enactment successful San Luis Obispo and aft work, we didn’t perceive anymore from her.”

According to the family, Velasco remained successful interaction with them passim the time until astir 4 p.m.—shortly aft she finished her shift. Then, connection abruptly stopped.

“At the moment, investigators person told america determination are 2 suspicious vehicles tied to my mom’s disappearance,” Perez said.

The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office released a photograph of 2 trucks—a reddish 1 and a achromatic one—believed to beryllium connected to Velasco's case. Both vehicles person since been seized for evidence.

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office

Perez confirmed the household recognizes 1 of the trucks arsenic belonging to idiosyncratic Velasco knew.

“One of the vehicles, we bash cognize who it belongs to,” she said. “But astatine the infinitesimal we’ve been advised not to accidental overmuch due to the fact that they are investigating it.”

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office is starring the investigation. When contacted, officials confirmed that Velasco's disappearance is being treated arsenic a missing person’s lawsuit with suspicious circumstances. Due to the ongoing investigation, they declined to merchandise further details astatine this time.

Anyone with accusation is urged to interaction the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office oregon the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.