This week’s featured missing person — the last of the decade — in Jessica Eileen Ortiz, a 29-year-old woman who disappeared from Pueblo, Colorado on April 12, 2007. If still alive she’d be 42 today.
It’s not likely Jessica is still alive, though. She had advanced cervical cancer, something she was unaware of when she disappeared. And the man she was last seen with, her longtime boyfriend, Wade Albrow, has a long history of violence. This was probably yet another case of fatal intimate partner violence, something that appears in the Charley Project’s pages a lot.
What a heartbreaking and disturbing case. It is very plausible that she has passed, either due to homicide or her (most likely) terminal illness. What a terrible hand that she had been dealt. I hope she’s found so at least her family can put her to rest. RIP