It's been a long time at this point, and we just wanted to keep people informed that she's still missing, that she's in danger, and that she's not a runaway.
And you just wake up every day trying to figure out what should I be doing to keep going with my daughter's search.
It's frustrating that there is no clues.You don't know what else to do.You go to the police and they have nothing.
We just passed 12 weeks and certainly we encourage our community to stay vigilant.I mean, if she was picked up by someone and staying with someone, there's a possibility she could still be in the area.
So we still continue to make sure that the community is on the lookout for her.
On June 24, 2024, 21-year-old Zianya Veloura stayed up after her parents, Gabriel and Damaris, went to bed for the evening. Around 2.30 a.m., Zianya left her home in Ojai, California.
It's believed that Zianya was barefoot, wearing a tank top and shorts.Zianya was never seen or heard from again.The following day, Zianya's parents assumed that she was just sleeping in, as young people often do.
Around 11 a.m., Zianya's mother realized that her daughter was not in her room or anywhere inside their home.Damaris phoned her husband at work and began looking around the neighborhood.
After failing to find Ziania, Damaris reported her daughter missing, and despite extensive searches of the area, not a single trace of Ziania Valora has surfaced.
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Zianya Valora's life as a 21-year-old living in Ojai, California was different from many of her peers.In her teen years, Zianya was diagnosed with autism after she had a mental health crisis.
She spent the majority of her time at home with her parents and mostly kept to herself.Zianya didn't have friends in the neighborhood and preferred not to venture out often.
Zianya had her comfort zone, and it was often a challenge for her parents to get her out and about to do things outside of the home. So on the morning of June 25th, 2024, it came as a shock to Damaris when she discovered that Zianya was gone.
We didn't check on her room immediately when we wake up.We thought that she was sleeping because she will be usually awake during the night till probably 3 or 4 a.m.And she went to sleep around 5 a.m.
She will be sleeping during the morning till probably 2 p.m. So we didn't immediately check on her in the morning on that 25th.And we got something to eat, and then we went to the storage.
And then when we come back from the storage, that it was around 11 a.m., when I was just putting the things away, because it was getting hot, so we got the AC mobile unit.
and I was trying to get it down from the car and when I was going around the house to see where can I put the AC unit is when I noticed that my daughter's window was open and there was no window screen so I was like okay and I opened the curtains and she was not there and I went around the house and she was not there and I get in the house and she was not there and she was around 11 something
And I called my husband immediately.He was at work in Santa Barbara and it's around 40 minutes, 45 minutes drive.He was like, OK, I'm going back.
And I was like, OK, I'm going to go and look for her because we thought that probably she went out of the house in the morning when we went to the storage.So I thought that she will be around close by.I drive around for a while and I didn't find her.
I went all around that neighborhood and I couldn't find her.So I was like, no, she probably went out of the house earlier, not at this time.So I went back to the house and I called the police at that point.And it was around 12 when I called.
Each missing person's case and their life circumstances are so unique and important to understand as we examine the details of their disappearance.And Zianya's case is no different.
In fact, it's important to understand Zianya's habits as we unravel the mystery of what may have happened to her in June.We also spoke to Zianya's father, Gabriel.
who explained that very early on in Zianya's life, they learned that she had Turner syndrome.
According to the Mayo Clinic, Turner syndrome is a condition that affects only females, and it results when one of the X chromosomes is missing or partially missing.
Turner syndrome can cause a variety of medical and developmental problems, including short height and heart defects.Gabriel explained the health challenges Zianya faced at the beginning of her life.
She has Turner syndrome.We noticed it when she was, I think, about 15 days old.There is a lot of health issues related with Turner syndrome.But at a very early age, she had that surgery, that heart surgery.
With the Turner syndrome, there is a lot more stuff she was dealing with.She had three or four surgeries on her ears.Her checkups, regular visits with an endocrinologist.We were going to LA because her specialists were over there.
Zianya has two brothers, one older and one younger.During her elementary and middle school years, others observed that she was quiet and introverted, and she mostly kept to the same friend circle as her younger brother.
She was before in a school that she was on the same group of friends that my son had.So they knew pretty well each other.And she wasn't being in social groups, but in that kind of environment, she felt secure because my son was there.
Eventually, it was time for Zianya to move on to high school, and her little brother was still at the middle school.Zianya lost that safety net of having her brother in their shared friend group.
Damaris said that this was when she began to see her daughter struggle.
She wasn't diagnosed in the beginning of her life.She had some attitudes before that you could say kind of odd. But the assessment that they made on her didn't come.She was autistic till she was 16.
And it was all due to an anxiety episode that she had.When she was transferred to high school, she fell out of place and she didn't want to go.It was a struggle every day that we were dropping her off.
She got in this anxious episode and she put herself in the middle of the highway and the sheriff came and they knock on my door.I was getting ready to get to the school and I didn't even notice that she was out till sheriff knock on the door.
She was there and they put him in a psychiatry court.From there, We have a lot of things going on.We have the depression diagnosed, the autism, anxiety.Later on, she was also diagnosed with an eating disorder, but that was just a year ago.
So it was a lot of things at the same time, but after that episode, she was diagnosed as autistic.
For Gabriel, this all came as a shock to him.Zianya hadn't voiced to her parents that she was having a difficult time at the high school and was being bullied by her peers.
Before the high school, she didn't really suffer from mental issues. And it was a really big shock for her.I mean, we never imagined that something like that was happening because we didn't notice.
We didn't pay really a good attention that she was being bullied very hard.She was very quiet.She didn't say anything.We failed her. To be honest, now that I see it, we didn't pay the real good attention that we should have.The school didn't help.
It was kind of like a liability for them because they know that she has to have special accommodations.I believe that they are not really good at dealing with that.
A couple of times that I went there and I talked to the school principal, I didn't see that they really wanted to have her.So for them, it was kind of like a relief when we took her out of the school and put her in a different school.
We didn't want to go to the school and do more trouble because we were more concentrated on getting the help that she needed.That was more important to get the help instead of picking a fight with the school or the school districts.
Damaris decided to stay home with Zianya so that she could take her to all of her appointments, help her with school, and just be there to keep an eye on her daughter, who was clearly having a difficult time.
My wife now was working from home and helping me with my work at the office.She spent most of the time with my daughter.My wife has been always involved in just trying to find out any help she could for her.
Zianya's parents worked to get their daughter the help she needed.After this time, she didn't return to traditional school as she had before.Then the pandemic happened, and their access to resources only became more limited.
After that episode on 2017, she was on a hold for a while.She went into treatment for two or three months.She wasn't there the whole day.We were going back and forth, six hours treatment, coming back home.
In that treatment, they were giving her some kind of high school classes.And we had some dependent studies from the high school.They send us teachers the whole week. But then when the pandemic came, it was totally online.
She came back to our charity school.She was doing almost everything online, which they require at least two times she will be physically on the school.
So we were there two days on the week, a few hours, sometimes just one hour, but she didn't finish it.She was about to complete it on this year, which she wasn't completing.So this year, around February, she dropped off.
She said that it was a little bit too much, so she just dropped it.
Since Zianya didn't receive an autism diagnosis until she was a teenager, her parents feel that she missed out on a lot of interventions that would have been available to her earlier in her school years.
And perhaps Zianya and her parents would have been better equipped as she transitioned into adulthood if they had had more time to get her help and the school system had been more supportive.
Earlier in life, Zianya decided that she wanted to be a veterinarian, but Gabriel explained that the struggles his daughter faced set her off course.
I mean, she's the sweetest person.She's super smart.She wanted to be a veterinarian.She found the animal behavior very interesting.There is a college 45 minutes from here that we were planning on taking her after she finished high school.
They had a very good program on what she wanted.
Before Zianya stopped attending school, Damara said that their required trips to the school provided them with a routine.She and Zianya would go out and do things together.But after that ended, it became more difficult to get her to leave home.
It was our regular thing to go out on Fridays, go to school, do some grocery shopping, and then come back home.But since she dropped school, we were basically at home the whole day.She didn't want to go anywhere.
She didn't even want to go to the doctor's appointments. was hard for her to go out during that time after February this year.
And at some point she got really isolated on her own, not that we wanted to, but she just wanted to be on her own bedroom the whole time. She didn't want to go out for almost anything.It was hard for us to get her out of the room.
If you've looked up Ziania's name online, you may have seen some articles say that she has schizophrenia.We asked Damaris about this, and she said that there was never an official diagnosis.
But in early 2023, Ziania's psychiatrist had given her a prescription that's used to treat schizophrenia.
Gabriel watched as his daughter isolated herself further and further, and he decided to try to get Zianya to go out with him on his daily walks with their family dog.
Before she went missing, how she was having a hard time at home, just with the basic hygiene.She was starting to be very resistant, so she was kind of fighting using the basic things.
And that only indicated she was kind of getting into more and more deep depression. When I talk to people that ask how this happened, or some of these people, they say, well, you know, don't worry about it.
Probably she wanted to explore outside, so she's okay.It's not that she was at home and we didn't let her go out.On the contrary, every time that we wanted to go out, we wanted to take her with us, but she didn't want to go out.
I was trying to do a typical morning, trying to get her out in the mornings to go walk with me and our dog.I tried a couple of times.She didn't really want to do it.But we went a couple of times down the trail.
One of the frustrations that Zianya's parents struggled with was that their daughter was now an adult and had the freedom to make her own medical decisions, even if they often went against what they felt were her best interests.
They didn't have guardianship or conservatorship over her, so they didn't have control over her decision making any longer.This led to some disagreements between Zianya and her parents.
The problem with the later years is now she became a young adult.She started to see that she had the power to say no.Any help that my wife went out and get her, tried to help her, she kind of started to refusing it.
Even already being in the programs, cancel the appointments, she started to say no to almost everything.It is really hard to get the help.
And after you get the help, she was starting to cancel all the appointments, just refusing all the help or not answering the phone. Because she learned it and now she has the power to say, I want to do it or I don't want to do it.
She didn't want to go to the doctor.Eventually, we were going to take her to the clinic because we were not going to be allowing her to lose more weight.
Because that was one of the reasons she went into the clinic a few years ago, because she was putting herself in danger because she was getting really, really skinny because she wasn't really eating.She started locking herself in her room.
We went to talk to her.You're going to try to take your medication and just kind of try to get her back in track.And she said, OK.She has never, ever been aggressive in any way, ever.If she kind of confronts you, she was always going to talk to you.
If she doesn't want to talk to you, she won't talk to you, not even to us.
Gabriel has serious concerns about how Zianya had isolated herself in the months leading up to her disappearance.She seemed so disinterested in interacting with family members and taking care of herself.
In hindsight, he worries that she was struggling with her mental health more than they realized at the time.Damaris said that one of the things they butted heads about the most was Zianya's refusal to take a shower.
And in the lead up to her disappearance, this came to a head.
She didn't want to take a shower.She will take a shower on her own, probably on Thursdays and Fridays, but she wouldn't actually take a shower.
She will basically just open the water, let it run a little bit, just to say that she will actually take a shower, but she didn't.We got a really bad time.She was just saying, no, no, no. yelling, like, I don't want to do it.
The neighbor in front knocked on our door and said, is everything all right?I told them, yeah, we were just trying to put her in the shower.And she's like, OK, do you want me to call the police?We said no.So she was really upset with us that time.
She was quiet before, but at this point she wasn't talking to us.She was really upset.We tried to say something to compensate, trying to not disturb her anymore, to say anything to her anymore.
If she wanted to take a shower, she would take it at some point.It was three weeks before she went missing.
Zianya and her parents had their disagreements.Zianya was an adult and wanted to do things her way, but she was still living at home, and her parents felt that some of her habits were unhealthy.
Gabriel and Damaris were trying to get her back on track, but sometimes it was a real battle.They didn't want to push her too hard and upset her.They felt as if they were navigating a tightrope walk between not doing enough and doing too much.
Gabriel and Damaris never expected their daughter to disappear.They didn't feel that she had the means or skills to survive out in the world on her own.She had mostly stayed inside their family home and kept to herself.
It wasn't even like her to decide to go for a walk in the neighborhood very often.Before we dive into the details of Zianya's disappearance, we asked Gabriel to explain what a typical day looked like for Zianya.
On a typical day, she woke up late, very late.She was going to bed normally very late too.Watch TV, watch news.Her schedule was one of the things that it was all over the place.Anything for sleeping, for eating.
Some of the days she didn't eat anything.She started eating without us being there, so she didn't want to eat with us. Most of us was getting ready to go to sleep, 12 a.m., 1 a.m.Normally, it was only one meal a day.
So on the morning of June 25th, when Damaris realized that Zianya's window was open with the screen removed and she couldn't find her daughter anywhere, she phoned Gabriel at work and then she called law enforcement.
Damaris explained that they responded quickly because Zianya was considered at risk.
They came 20 minutes or so, and then search and rescue team were at the house in an hour after I called.
Now, this wasn't the first time that Zianya had left home, but it also wasn't something that happened often.There was a time in 2020 that a similar situation had occurred, and Zianya was found rather quickly.
People within the local community had noticed her, and she was found at a church.
The other 2020 episode that she had was when she just got out of the house.She walked around a mile or so and she went to a church.She stayed there till the morning that search and rescue found her.It was around four hours that they searched.
And the way that they found her, somebody in the convenience store, they saw her.The search and rescue team went and they followed through that sighting.And that's how they found her on that last time.
Since Ciania had gone to a church that time in 2020, that was one of the first places they looked.Perhaps she had gone to the same church or another church in Ojai.
I immediately went over there.And it's just a seven-minute drive.She wasn't there.I went around the church.I went around the street.
When Damaris reported Zianya missing in June 2024, the same person from Search and Rescue responded and remembered Zianya from the 2020 incident.They believed that they would find her quickly, just as they had in 2020.
The same person that found her on the church the first time was the same person on the search and rescue team this time.And she knew about her.So they set it up really quick.
They knew that she will be around because the last time they found her around really quickly.The search and rescue team, they were here for about five days and they came down with a dog and they covered a lot of the ground here.
And they explained to us how the search was and how the radios and all the area that they cover.There were some spots missing around the valley, obviously, but they covered a lot of the area.
The helicopter went all the way down to Ventura, back and forth.And they put the alert on the Ventura County system.I immediately, the next day, put the notification on Nextdoor and Facebook.
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It's clear that everyone believed they would find Zianya in Ojai.Maybe she was just lost or had gotten injured while walking around at night.But the extensive search efforts failed to find a single trace of her.
Gabriel and Damaris believe that she left home wearing only shorts and a tank top.They found all of her shoes inside their home, so they believe she must have been barefoot.
When those searches weren't turning up any clues, they circled back to looking closer to home. They thought to check the cameras in the neighborhood.So many homes have doorbell cameras these days.
So they went to neighbors to see if their cameras had picked up anything on the night Zianya disappeared.
One of the neighbors, she's the next one to us.She could probably have a good footage on her camera.And she went to the detective and they didn't find anything.And after that, she came to our door and she said, here's the footage.
You can check it out.And that happened to another neighbor that is in front of us that has a ring camera.It didn't show anything at all. The other neighbor had a camera that is just fake.And the other neighbor is a little farther from us.
And there's something in the middle that is like a building with the laundry, community room.That building blocks the view of that neighbor to our house.There's no way that she got any footage from her house to our house.There's no footage.
There's nothing. bring us to any evidence that she was out and where she was out or with whom she was out.
With the camera footage from the neighborhood turning out to be yet another dead end, they went to Zianya's electronic devices.She had left home with her iPhone, and the phone is still missing today, along with her.
The detective that came to our house was trying to figure out what are the devices that she found on.They obviously noticed that the only thing that was missing at home was her phone.
So the detective and I was trying to figure out how to reach that phone.She has a computer that the detectives, they have that computer right now.
The first day I got the computer at home, so he's like, can you please just open the computer and tell me if you see the location of the phone, if you have the phone connected to the computer or something.
Obviously, I'm not an expert, but I'm going to try.And he was on the phone guiding me.And at some point I was like, yeah, OK, you know what?There's something.
While looking at the phone data through the computer, Damaris found something.And it was one of the most significant clues they've uncovered thus far.At the time of her disappearance, Zianya's phone was only working while connected to Wi-Fi.
It wasn't connected to a cell phone carrier, so they weren't able to ping it.But Damaris could see something.
On the same night, she went missing, and it was 242, two blocks down from where we live.It was on the corner, and then later we found out that it was an Airbnb, that it was a place that it has Wi-Fi open, that's
She probably walked by and that's how the phone thing, because the cell phone was with no SIM card.So the only way that worked is with the Wi-Fi signal.So the Airbnb was empty.
I think that the owners live there as well, but I think that they haven't divided.I think that they were on vacation as well.So the whole unit was empty.
The Airbnb where Zianya's phone connected to the Wi-Fi shortly after it's believed she left home isn't far from her house.
And Damaris explained that when dogs were brought out to assist in the search efforts, they tracked her daughter's scent along that path to where it eventually ended.
The Airbnb probably is less than half a mile, and you keep walking and you get to that spot where the dogs lose the scent.It wasn't that far.
They don't want to say that somebody probably picked it up at that point, but that's not all their explanation.But they don't want to say that somebody picked it up because there's not evidence. So I think that's our theory, not the police.
In that spot, somebody could be parked, saw her walk, and then pick her from there.Because at that point, they lost distance.She didn't walk through the street precisely.It was down to the trail that is really dark.
There's no light, there's no cameras, there's nothing there.We were lucky enough to get that thing on the Airbnb leading us down.I mean, it kind of matches the same direction.That's the only things that we are having for sure.
But after that, nothing else.It's been just a blank space because we don't know what happened after. We keep thinking that at that point somebody saw her and just took her.
Gabriel mentioned earlier that he had been encouraging Zianya to go with him when he walked their family dog each day.She accompanied him a few times, but didn't really seem interested.
When Gabriel learned about the Airbnb Wi-Fi and the scent trail that dogs followed, that clicked for him.That was the same path that he had taken with his daughter when they walked the dog together.
When she went missing, the phone ping on an Airbnb Wi-Fi that was along the territory, almost on the same direction that we went walking the last couple of times.She has a really great, great memory.She will have the way to come back by herself.
She's really, really smart.I know she knows my phone number by heart.If she could, she will try to get some help.
We also spoke to Captain Trina Newman from the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.Captain Newman explained more about the various resources they utilized in an attempt to find Zianya.
We had so many specialized organizations out here assisting with the search.So we had our search and rescue volunteers, our canine unit, search and rescue canines.We had our mounted patrol unit. our drones, our helicopter, our aviation unit out here.
We had our regular patrol officers.We had our volunteers and policing assisting, mutual aid with other search and rescue units from out of the county.So they were from Santa Barbara and L.A.
County search and rescue units for that major search that we underwent.Many times search and rescue comes out and does searching, we use a program where it tracks where they did searches and it tracks how many miles that they actually searched.
In terms of the search and the degree and size of our search, we had a total of 148 search zones covered approximately 10,300 acres that were searched and approximately 1,700 miles that were walked on foot and searched.We had about
185 total personnel that were involved and over 1,500 hours of volunteer work by our search and rescue volunteers.In the early days, it was super hot up here in the Ojai Valley.
And during the day, our flares, which is the heat-seeking, forward-looking infrared, don't work. During the day, because it just picks up all the other heat sources, like the roads and the rocks and stuff like that.
So, during the day, the helicopter would do just visual searches of all of our. that country, the riverbed areas that weren't easily accessible by foot.
And then they came back like at three or four o'clock in the morning to do the heat seeking using the FLIR.The ground was cooler and it would pick up a heat signature better.
The reason we use the drones is there's a lot of private property here in Ojai that we couldn't easily access.
Every area has its own unique geography that can lead to challenges while searching for a missing person.Captain Newman explained what they were up against while searching out in the summer heat.
So the Ojai Valley, it's a mountainous area.It has a lot of canyon crevices, steep drop-offs, extremely heavy brush in a lot of areas.And we also have what we call the Ventura River
that runs through the valley and it's a wide river bottom that most of the year was dry.
There may have been some areas where there was a small creek size amount of water running through the river bottom, but nothing that would kind of amount to where if she fell in the water that she would get carried away.
But even then, there's a lot of rocks and crevices in that area as well.And so that makes it for a difficult
search when someone's on foot and they have a head start and we don't necessarily know which direction they went to and if it was at nighttime that she went missing and was walking, there could be potential that she did come up to a ledge and fall off a ledge and get into an area that wasn't easily accessible.
That was a challenge that we did face.Our search and rescue teams are highly trained in that type of terrain, but we did what we could in terms of covering those areas by foot and utilizing the helicopter.
But there are going to be areas that we may have not searched just because of the difficult terrain. The weather during that time when she went missing, it was definitely warm, not as warm as the heat wave that we just had.
But I mean, nonetheless, our search and rescue teams were out there in the middle of the day, all day, doing searches on foot, using e-bikes, off-road vehicles.So that didn't deter us from searching for her.
States have different alerts that are utilized to look for missing persons, and they aren't always the same.You've likely heard of amber alerts and silver alerts.There are specific thresholds that must be met to trigger each of these alerts.
Zianya qualified for an endangered missing advisory.
According to the California Highway Patrol, an Endangered Missing Advisory is an alert available to law enforcement agencies investigating the suspicious disappearance of an at-risk missing child or other endangered persons.
In order for an Endangered Missing Advisory to be activated, the following criteria must be met.The person is missing under unexplained or suspicious circumstances, is believed to be in danger because of age, health,
mental or physical disability, or the environment, is in the company of a potentially dangerous person, or any other factor that may put the person in serious peril.
And there's information available that, if disseminated to the public, could assist in a safe recovery.
Based on her diagnosis of autism and mental capacity described to us by the family, she was immediately labeled as a missing person at risk. which elevated our response.
Typically, if it's just a voluntary missing person, because she was an adult, a voluntary missing person wouldn't elevate the extensive searching that we did.
So because we labeled her as an at-risk person, we immediately were able to call for those resources and have the response that we did, as well as she qualified as what we would call an endangered missing person in terms of a statewide notification.
So that notification goes out to all law enforcement agencies statewide.And that's a program through California Highway Patrol.People ask, well, what does that mean?
And why didn't we see, for example, people see sometimes missing persons on those highway billboards.So there's different levels of a missing person based on the details of how they went missing.So in Sonia's case, she went missing on foot.
We had no indication that she was in a vehicle or that she was taken by someone that was driving a vehicle.For her to qualify for some of those freeway billboard type flashing signs, we have to have information that she was last seen in a vehicle.
And we did not have that information.So she didn't qualify for that messaging campaign. There's a lot involved and there's certain thresholds for our agency policy and state policy that have to be met for us to put certain notifications out.
We know that dogs had tracks Zionnia sent to that trail that she had walked along with her father on a few occasions.Captain Newman told us what she knows about this.
I think we had two search and rescue dogs that were deployed. And it seemed like initially they may have caught a scent and both dogs led to a particular area in that entire area of research.
And we did not have any results in terms of finding her or finding any clues that she was in the area where the dogs ended up leading to.
I mean, I'm not a dog handler, but from what I gathered in speaking to the handlers out there, there were so many factors that would have made her scent tracking more difficult.
So, you know, you're talking weather in terms of wind, in terms of humidity, the amount of time that she had been missing to the time that the dogs got there, those dogs led to kind of the same area.
It gave us maybe an idea, but definitely not a hard clue as to where we focused our searches.We used that as a tool, but we didn't focus on that.
Going back to the beginning once again, did Zianya just decide to exit through her window?Or had someone come into her room that way?We asked Damaris about this, and if there was something pushed up under the window to aid her in climbing out.
She said that this was a lower window, about 2 feet from the floor.But from the outside, that window is about 4.5 feet from the ground.Damaris and Zianya are similar in stature.
So she tried to climb out the window herself, just to see how difficult it would be.She said that it ended up being really complicated for her due to her shorter legs.She had to lean towards something to get to the ground.
This led her to question what really happened that night.But she also said that law enforcement didn't find any other fingerprints besides her own and Ziania's, and that they took the whole screen protector from that window to the lab.
In the months since Sianya vanished, the family and law enforcement have received some tips about possible sightings of her in the local community.Damaris and Gabriel try to run each and every one of these tips down, because you just never know.
Almost all of them have been followed through and they have found that it's not Sianya, that it's somebody else. Few of them, they have been still investigated.
And we, personally, my husband and I, have been following through whatever lead that they send us, especially when it's in social media.We go and look around and we try to find whoever say anything.
And we haven't confirmed that it's Sianya, so we have no other leads.
Earlier, Damaris described a time in 2020 when Zianya had left home and was reported missing, though she turned up the same day at a local church.People witnessed her walking around town and reported that, which led them to the church and Zianya.
So it's reasonable to assume that she would have been seen around town this time, too.Damaris said that it wasn't long before Zianya vanished, that a neighbor saw her walking around during the day, while Damaris had left to run a brief errand.
And this time, too, she was noticed.
A month before, she got out again.I think that it was from the door of our house, but we weren't home.My husband has a little restaurant, and I had to go and buy some supplies for the restaurant.And she stayed at home alone.
And she got out of the house around eight.And then one of the neighbors told me she was out.And usually she's not out.That's why the neighbor called me.Your daughter is out.Is that OK?No, well, she wouldn't be out.I'll be back in a quick moment.
And she was like, oh, you want me to keep an eye on her?And I'm like, yeah, please.I'm going to be right away.I wasn't that far. She's like, OK, yeah, I got her in the house again.I talked to her, but she never responded.
She's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I stayed with her the whole time.And I came back and I asked her and she always denied that she was out.
What makes Zianya's disappearance so baffling is that unlike these other times, no one saw her and she wasn't picked up on any cameras nearby.
Gabriel recalls how quickly they found Zianya in 2020 and the stark contrast between that incident and when Zianya left in June.
The first time that she went on, just an example, I noticed that she went missing.So I got in the car immediately.My wife called the police.She stayed at home.I went out looking for her.The trail is really, really far from my house.
So that was my first place that I went to look.I did it on the car.Then I came back and I got my bike.We couldn't find anything.So I went now asking on the businesses.When I went to the gas station, they told me, Oh yeah, yeah.We saw her walking.
around 4 or 5 a.m.that way.So I was just trying to go that way to look for when I receive a phone call from my wife that they have found there at the church.
So, but yeah, even in that occasion that it was a very short period of time that we found it, somebody saw her. What is really, really, really strange this time is that nobody saw her.There is no footage of her.
And she has to cross at least three or four entrances where they have some cameras in the Mohon Park, and there is no footage of her anywhere.Or gas stations.We have nothing.Even less than that time, and it's been already three months.
After hearing about that time that Zianya left home and was found hours later at a local church, we wondered if that was a church that her family attended on a regular basis.Was that a safe space for her?
Damaris explained that wasn't the case, so she doesn't know exactly why Zianya ended up there.
It's a little hard to understand why she did that, because I'm not religious.I believe in God, and I always told them to believe in God.There's a lot of amazing things going on around us that you can't even explain, right?
So they always believe in something, but we didn't attend church regularly.So she was getting into this religion thing, but not specifically on one religion.
When I asked her, do you want to join any specific, she never said yes because of this social, she didn't want to go with a community.
Gabriel recalls that in recent years, Zianya developed more of an interest in religion, though she didn't tell them the specifics of her interests.
And they don't know if this was more of a general interest or something focused on a specific group or belief system.
She had her phone all the time, kind of trying to pray into a godlike image she pulled up from the internet.As far as we know, she wasn't in contact with any cult or sect or any type of a religion organization.
The frustration for us is we couldn't find that organization or exactly what she was professing to.It wasn't like she said, oh, you know what, I'm going to convert to this religion.We could have never defined what exactly she was doing.
We tried to do some research based on whatever she was doing that Saturday she didn't want to eat or drink or anything at all.She started wearing only white clothes.
nothing else with color, but especially on Saturday, Sunday, we could never identify exactly if it was a religion, if it was a cult, where she was professing a devotion of this interest.
And when we confront her with that, we would try to talk about it. She just kept quiet and she didn't answer to us.I said, can you explain a little bit to us how to work?Why you are eating at this time?Why you only want to eat one time a day?
She just kept quiet and she didn't really give us a real answer.When she went missing, That was one of the first places that we went to look at it.Several times a day to the same church and to other churches in Ojai and Oakview.
We kept going at different times.
I even put water on benches outside, water and some cookies, just in case that she... There were this notion of she didn't want to be seen and she only was going out during the search at night because she didn't want to be found.I don't believe that.
Many of you listening are likely wondering if it's possible that Zianya had met someone online who convinced her to come outside and meet them in the middle of the night.
Damaris said that they found no evidence that she was speaking with anyone online.She never mentioned any new friends to her parents.
And she finds it difficult to imagine that something like that could have been going on, considering how Zianya had isolated herself in recent months.
Let me go back and tell you the one time that she actually had a friend.When she got out from this recovery center, she met that girl and they were really close because this girl actually lived really close to us. My daughter was happy.
You could see her face.Their attitude was totally different.She could talk to me a lot.She would be excited to go out.She would be a totally different person.
If she would be talking to someone in social media, she would be the same at some point with me, sharing what this person said.She would have wanted to meet with her.She would be saying something about her because that was
her personality, but she didn't.She never mentioned anyone.I don't believe that she was talking to someone.She has an Instagram account.I could log in into that account and I never saw any interaction with anyone.
She was just browsing around, commenting sometimes on some of the posts and watching videos, but nothing else.
But is it possible that Zianya had met someone online, whether that be in a religious community that interested her or anywhere, really, and that person was grooming her and working to isolate her from those who would protect her the most, her parents?
Gabriel said he's not ruling out that possibility.
Anything is possible, right?These people know how to lure people.That could be, but there is no evidence that happened on Instagram because we give the police her laptop.They couldn't find anything.
And you know, if they do like a forensic, my daughter used to use a lot my wife's phone, like almost every day, my wife's phones were downloaded and they didn't find anything on my wife's phone.
I really like to say this, I don't believe for a minute now that she just went out and she's just trying to avoid us.So I'm pretty sure that she's been kidnapped or she's been holding against her will somewhere, somehow.
Another thing that I always tell people, it's not like she was planning on going out and said, Oh, I'm going to plan to go out.So I'm going to go get my jacket.I'm going to get my tennis shoes to be comfortable because I'm going to be walking a lot.
She basically, she got up, got her phone, get off the window.I know she will hesitate.She will tend to overthink.If we disagree in something with her, she will feel that she was
fell into us because she was all the time worried about what we'll think.And not because we were on top of her for her to do the best thing.We were worried.She was not eating.She was not sleeping.We were worried all the time.
It was like this circle that she couldn't get out of it.
You often hear on the show that because there's no evidence of a crime in a case, law enforcement's hands are tied. They don't have probable cause to access specific information, like phone records.
Captain Newman explained that since Cyania is considered endangered, that didn't apply here.
When someone's labeled as a missing person at risk, that in and of itself allows us to access or to try and gain access to any electronics that she may have had.
And unfortunately, because of the phone she had and the limited technology that she had on her phone, we were unable to access her phone at all.
I think we had one hit locally here in her phone and that was checked and it resulted in no new information.
Because there was no indication of a crime, it really didn't bar us from doing what we would have done if there was some type of criminal indication because of the fact that she was missing at risk.
This was promising to hear.However, considering that the phone is missing and it was only operating on Wi-Fi networks, the information they have access to is limited.They only have that lead on the Airbnb Wi-Fi connection.
And they did go out and search that area, but found nothing.They haven't been able to rule out that Zianio was speaking with someone online, but they also have no evidence to support that theory either.
it could still be a possibility.There's nothing that we found on our end that indicates that.If that was the case, we would have been able probably to take this in a different direction and follow up on some of those leads.
That's not to say that it still could be a possibility.The family didn't believe that she was in connection with anyone.She was not very social to their knowledge.
And from what we found, she wasn't active on social media, that it could still be a possibility. We just don't have any information or evidence that led us in that direction.
One of the most puzzling aspects of Zianya's disappearance is that she wasn't captured on any surveillance cameras in the neighborhood or surrounding areas.Zianya vanished in the middle of the night.
Did the motion sensors fail to pick up her movements in the darkness?Captain Newman believes that could be a factor, but it's still weird.
The fact that she did leave at night does make it more difficult for her to show up on any type of surveillance cameras, typically surveillance cameras that people have in their homes.
They're not the best and it limits any type of views that we would have if she was walking by in the middle of the night.But at the same time, it is odd because we've had other missing
individuals up here in the community and you know it is a small community so when word gets out it gets out fast and there's so many people up here that are willing to help that when the word does get out we usually get calls pretty quickly that a person was seen in one place or another.
Now, the fact that she went missing in the middle of the night, that did have an impact on our ability to get the community involved right away.By the time we got the message out there, it had been a good 12, maybe even 15 hours.
And so by then, she could have been already out of the area.She could have already found a place to kind of hunker down. There's a possibility she did get picked up by someone.So there's all those factors that we were taking into consideration.
That being said, from the information that we got from the family, she was not one to wander far from home.They didn't believe that she was wearing shoes, even though it was very warm.She was only in a tank top and shorts when she went missing.
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And so if that was the case and she was still in the area, we were hoping that she would have been seen on a ring camera somewhere at some point or someone just driving by saw her walking.We didn't get any of that, unfortunately.
We had a couple of phone calls of individuals that maybe thought they saw her, but those didn't pan out.So it was strange that we didn't have any solid evidence at all.
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In their search for Zianya, they've kept hitting one dead end after another.Damaris has continued to appeal for help from the local community and across social media, just hoping to reach the right person.
The large search group that we had here was on July 12th, and we got around 60 people together, and we have a few teams. We were looking around with post flyers around as well.
We have one of the TV stations coming down and making a video to try to put it on the news.We have the newspaper.
Sometimes tragedy has a way of bringing a community of people together.And Damaris explained that two local women, Robin and Barbara, stepped up to help Damaris at events and on social media to continue spreading the word about Zianya.
My friend Barbara and my friend Robin, they are helping me with the search on social media.Robin texted me before that community search about getting in contact with local news, TV stations.
And Barbara, I think that she mentioned something else about just trying to help.And that community search, we got together, we met finally in person and We initially didn't know exactly how it will be taking shape.
But I think that in that community search, Robin or Barbara asked me if we can get together to get this Facebook.So that's how we began to be in contact more constantly.And then together got the Facebook page up.
We also spoke to both Robin and Barbara, who told us why and how they decided to get involved.
This is Barbara.Robin originally got the Facebook page up and then quickly realized that she needed some support because there was so much coming in.
So then she contacted me and I had met them both through the search party and just through next door comments.That's how I joined.
This is Robin.We've been posting from the beginning just what we know and any local events happening and making sure that people understood.There was some concern by the family that
The public or the police might think that she's a runaway, and we were really wanting to help clarify that it's different with persons with autism.It's not your typical runaway situation.
She's in danger, that she was immediately in danger.There's so many stories that end up out there that aren't accurate and aren't true. And the rumor mill starts going.
And so we wanted to kind of funnel people to that page so that they could get accurate information instead of misinformation, which naturally I think happens in cases like this.
I have a son with autism myself.I live in the community too.And I was concerned, Barbara and I, and others with even the news, were concerned that there was, again, that feeling that, well, she's 21. That's the narrative.You might have seen it.
Some of the comments on some things where people say, well, she's just up on her own.She doesn't want to come home.And that's an inaccurate narrative.
It's been a battle to push back against this narrative that Zianya is just someone who ran away by choice.
Robin, she knew better about this.This is not a runaway.She even posted it in the Facebook page in the next door to try to explain to the community that it's a totally different thing that a runaway or a 21-year-old runaway.
Recently, they set up a table at a community event, and a man came up to them with a possible lead.
We did community outreach with some tables out, just giving some information.We went to the mall and a person came forward to Barbara and he was saying something about seeing her in the bus stop with another guy trying to get into the bus.
But the thing that got his attention was that Sianya was really quiet and the guy was trying to keep her quiet.But the thing is that he was at the beginning of the search, but he didn't say anything because he didn't know that she was missing.
Last week, this guy told us this lady that he thinks that he saw in the bus, she was barefoot.It led us to believe that it could be Sianya,
Barbara spoke to this gentleman directly, and he told her that he believed he had seen Ziania just two days after she vanished, though he wasn't aware that anyone was missing at the time, and that's why it took him a couple of months to come forward.
Damaris was talking about being in the mall and having the one guy who thought he saw her at the bus station.He came over because he saw the picture and he started talking to me.
And he told the story of seeing her at the bus station that was right there.And this is a guy who knows all the people that take the bus because he take the bus back and forth to a senior center a lot.
So he didn't recognize this guy and he saw who he believes is the Anya. with this 30-ish-year-old man who looked like he was homeless.She didn't have any shoes on.
He was trying to get flip-flops for her and trying to get money for the bus to get on the number six bus.The number six bus takes you to Oxnard, and Oxnard is where the metro station is. So this guy didn't have any money for him.
And he went into the store that was right there.And when he came back, they were both gone.But what he did say is that this 30 year old guy, 30 year old guy kind of looked like he was up to no good.And she looked like she didn't belong with him.
And she had big eyes like she was scared.And he was kind of keeping her behind him.
Trying to get shoes for and just kind of keeping her quiet behind him the whole time But when this guy was talking to me He looked at the poster and there's three different pictures on the poster that we had on the table and he said she looked just like this line I'd pointed to one of the pictures and he said I could still see it in my head.
I'm so sorry.I'm so sorry I'm so sorry And I could see the remorse in his eyes that he didn't call and then at that time somebody else came up that knew him and
I could tell from their interaction that this other guy had a lot of respect for this man who was talking to me.So that kind of gave him a little bit more credibility, in my opinion.And I asked him if he remembered what she was wearing.
And he said that he thought that she had been wearing pajamas, maybe, and that she didn't have any shoes on. He specifically said he didn't recognize this guy.This guy was a stranger and that he knew everybody.
And that's one of the things, the other guy that came up and that guy said, yeah, he knows everybody.I got his phone number and his name and passed it on.And that's all I know.We just learned this last week.And there is a camera there.
I don't know if the authorities contacted the transit station, but I do know that there's a camera and that's actually something that the gentleman had told me.See if you could get footage.I don't know how long they keep it.
Robin and Barbara live nearby, and they've been on high alert, just hoping Ziania will return and keeping an eye out for anything suspicious.Robin said something strange happened at her home not long after Ziania went missing.
The only weird thing was that somebody, was it a week later, a couple weeks later, was in my garage at some point in the night because my exterior door was open and a bike was moved and my car door was opened, but nothing was taken out of my garage.
So somebody had been in my garage in the night. And then left by the morning and left the door open.And it wasn't my kids because I asked my kids about it.I'm one block over from the Airbnb.
And I did call the police and they came out and investigated and looked on my property.And of course there was nothing and nothing was taken.Nothing was disturbed.The bike wasn't taken.
It could have been taken very easily and it wasn't, it was just moved.
Some people have commented on online forums that perhaps Ziania just wanted to leave home because she was unhappy with the tension growing between herself and her parents.They had that argument weeks prior about her needing to take a shower.
But Damaris is concerned about her daughter's ability to function in society on her own.It's believed she left with just the clothes on her back, and she was barefoot.She didn't have any money or means to support herself.
Ziania's case is somewhat unique in that she's an adult, but she's also considered endangered. Captain Newman believes it's possible that Zianya did leave on her own, though it doesn't appear that she planned to be gone very long.
And despite the fact that she could have planned to do this, it doesn't mean she isn't at risk.
There's so many factors that we had to take into consideration.She had that prior time when she actually did leave and then we found her at a church.The family is based on
their interactions with her doesn't believe that she would have the mental capacity to pre-plan some of these things like plan to leave in the middle of the night where no one would see her.But yet she did go missing in the middle of the night.
So it's difficult to say what her intent was, really.Was she truly pre-planning this?And were the prior attempt just kind of to see how far she could get?
We spent so many hours with the family asking what their feelings were, and if she would have the capability of pre-planning and wanting to run away and intentionally go missing, or if they thought truly it was just by fluke she was able to do this.
And there just really was not a lot of evidence to indicate one way or the other.
You know, I can say that the family has been cooperative with us and based on everything we've researched and investigated thus far, the family does not appear to be involved.
That's a question of the day and a question people are, you know, might be wondering is, well, was the family involved in something?And we don't have anything at this point to indicate that.
So you take that out of the equation and it's back to just what Sonia's intent was and why he went missing during that time. Did she connect with anyone?Did she have a plan of where to go?And those are all unanswered.
The large-scale search efforts for Zianya were caught off after about five days.But Gabriel hasn't given up on searching for his daughter.
He's continued to fan out through the local area whenever he has free time, going over areas previously searched and pressing into new territories.
There is a couple rivers, both they are really dry.The other one that comes from Santa Clarita and also the river, it is the Santa Ana river, the one that is next to our house.So that's why we went into the river.
We really did a good search on that one on the second or the third week that she went missing because the river didn't really have any water.You can't really walk in the river.So we kind of went looking there too.We didn't find anything.
Lately, we've been more focusing on the homeless campgrounds.They normally are on the river bank because, again, there's no water.
And that's what we've been doing lately, taking some food to them, kind of getting to know them a little bit, see if they can open to us.
You know, you never know where you're going to find the tip that is going to help us to get her back, to get her located, you know? I met some homeowners on the various searches that we did.
And they said, oh, no, they already came and they checked one location, one house that is really, really close from the river.She said, you know what, they checked, they checked this area, but they never checked this other area.
And I'm willing to go with you and check.I did.So it was like a really rough area.I mean, with a lot of brush.We went and we covered that area that the search and rescue didn't cover.
my main concern if you are depressed and you're gonna take your life places that they are really really steep that you can you can do that and on either side of the trail and on the river we look at it and we didn't find anything and we were
very thorough.It would look really, really good.But obviously, I mean, some parts, they are really, really inaccessible.Some areas, very steep.It's really, really hard to get in.So you need to use all kinds of tools to really get into it.
But we did it.I kind of was relieved because it was already weeks after that we didn't find it because it wouldn't be nothing good.But I've been doing more search on the north area of Ojai, by the mountains.
And then there is this park next to North Grove, kind of like a reserve just behind the school.It's a big area.I went to look on that area and the search and rescue went too.I felt that I didn't kind of cover the whole terrain.
And this time we kind of did more coverage of that terrain than the first week that we did it.To be honest, people have been really helpful.
As the search for Zianya presses on, Gabriel told us more about Zianya's appearance and mannerisms that may help someone spot her.
She speaks very well English.She speaks Spanish really, really well, too.She walks very slow.She will be very skinny.She's 4'11", not even five foot tall, so she look like a 14-year-old.They might mistaken her also for a homeless person.
Captain Newman expressed that the community's role in the search for Zianya is vital.
We just passed 12 weeks.Certainly we encourage our community just to, you know, stay vigilant.I mean, if she was picked up by someone and staying with someone, there's a possibility she could still be in the area.So in travels, on the road.
We still continue to make sure that the community is kind of on the lookout for her.We still have flyers posted in many businesses up here.
And so her picture is still out there and the family did an awesome job and has done an awesome job and continuing to keep that information alive and ongoing.And I think that's the other important part too, is keeping her name out there.
I run into people in the community all the time that ask me about Sonia and you know, if there's any new information or if we found her.And I think that in and of itself is important, making sure that her information continues to stay out there.
And I think that's kind of been what the family has struggled with in the aftermath.What do they do now?Damaris just texted me yesterday.Is there anything else that we can do?
Is there any other organizations that they can get in touch with to help keep Sonia's information out there alive and fresh? From the standpoint of our agency, we don't run into a whole lot of these.
Usually there's some criminal aspect to it and we work with that angle of it, but this is very different for us.And we really struggled with it too.
We reached out to state and national organizations to make sure that there wasn't anything that we were missing in terms of resources and what we could do.It's hard when the family's asking for answers and
And we don't have any either, and it's frustrating on all levels.
So what happened to Ziania Veloura in the early morning hours of June 25, 2024?We know that it appears that she exited her home out of her bedroom window because the window was left open with the screen removed.
Though Damaris does have some questions about how Ziania would have been able to maneuver out of the window without assistance.It's also believed that she left home around 2.30 a.m.
because not long after, her phone joined an open Wi-Fi network at an Airbnb not far from her home. That's the last activity they've been able to pinpoint from her phone, which wasn't connected to a cell carrier.
Zianya wasn't picked up on any cameras, and no one reported seeing her.By lunchtime, Damaris reported her daughter missing, and a massive search ensued.But they haven't found a trace of Zianya.
Her scent was tracked past the Airbnb and to a nearby trail where it ended.This has led her family to wonder if she had been abducted.Was Zianya communicating with someone online who convinced her to meet them under the cover of darkness?
No one has found any evidence to support that theory. but it also can't be ruled out.It didn't appear that Ziania left home planning to be gone very long.She was barefoot and didn't take anything with her besides her phone.
Did she venture out and got hurt somehow? Did she get lost and no one has found her?Did she choose to disappear?Or did something more sinister happen that night?
No one knows the answers to those questions, but her loved ones are hoping that by appealing to the public, more leads will begin to funnel in and give them more areas to search or witnesses to speak to.
If you have any information about Zianya Veloura's disappearance, please contact the Ventura County Sheriff's Office at 805-654-9511. You can follow the search efforts for Zianya on Facebook at Find Zianya Veloura.
Zianya's family is currently offering a $50,000 reward for information.
We did do searches in our homeless community areas and passed out flyers.And, you know, we've had people from our homeless community before call and give us tips about other things in the past.
So we would hope that if that was the case and if Sonia was there, we would hope that by the information that we disseminated, that somebody would do something similar and call us that she was hiding out there or something of that nature.
You would hope that someone would do the right thing if that was the case.
We were just getting devastated because every house that we knocked, we were crying and telling about my daughter and everything.It was just frustrating, then devastating, and then we were crying all the time.
And I was with my husband like, you know what, this is not working.I mean, we are just crying out. without getting any results.So we try to figure a better way to look.
But yeah, the police stopped at some point, and we've been doing whatever that we can.And that's why we are talking to you right now, because we are trying to keep going with anything that we can find.
Any resource, any media, anyone that could help us to spread the word and keep trying, you know?
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