BELLAMY MALAKI GAMBOA LISTED AS “CRITICALLY MISSING ADULT”

BELLAMY MALAKI GAMBOA LISTED AS “CRITICALLY MISSING ADULT”

by | Jul 11, 2018 | News | 21 comments

Police in Virginia Beach, Virginia have spent the last week searching for a mother of four. Bellamy Malaki Gamboa, 39, was last seen at her apartment in Virginia Beach on the night of July 1st. She was listed as a “critically missing adult” by police after they suspected she may have been abducted. Her 2005 gold Ford Focus was recovered about four miles from her apartment, parked next to a dumpster in a small parking lot on Pickering Street in Lake Edward.

Her family is perplexed and extremely concerned about her disappearance, with several witnesses claiming it was “uncharacteristic” for Gamboa to disappear without making arrangements for the care of her four children, as well as not showing up to work. “She needs to be home with her babies, you know,” said Tiffany Hazley, a friend. “This is just not really making a lot of sense right now…It’s not anything that she would do to jeopardize the situation where she would not be here to watch her older children grow up or her younger kids grow up,” she said. Several search efforts for Gamboa have already been conducted, covering wooded areas and neighborhoods, with friends and loved ones handing out flyers to passersby.

As was the case with Gamboa, family members or close friends usually report a loved one when they have not heard from them in an uncharacteristically long time, and when the loved one is more than 18 years of age, police are often left with little recourse in terms of tracking the individual. However, when law enforcement believes the adult’s life to be in danger, they are listed as “critically missing.” Since police believe Gamboa was abducted, she more than fit the definition of “critically missing.”

Police describe Bellamy as an Asian woman who is 5’1″ and weighs approximately 135 pounds. She has brown eyes and black hair. She has a tattoo of a band of roses on her right arm and “Bellamy” tattooed on her right ankle.

Anyone with information regarding Bellamy’s location or information regarding her car should call Virginia Beach Police at 1-757-385-8175, or Crime Solvers at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

This is a developing story…

Carie McMichael is the Communication and Media Specialist for Lauth Investigations International, a private investigation firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana–delivering proactive and diligent solutions for over 30 years. For more information, please visit our website.

NORRISTOWN MOTHER OF FOUR FOUND SAFE

NORRISTOWN MOTHER OF FOUR FOUND SAFE

by | Jun 28, 2018 | Investigations, Missing Persons, News | 4 comments

For the last two weeks, the family of a missing Norristown mother have been fearing the worst.

Jessica Guidici, 32, had been missing for eight days when authorities finally listed her as missing. In her absence, four children were left without a mother. The longer family went without hearing from her, the more concerned they grew, as no one in the family who has spoken out about Guidici’s disappearance made any indication she would leave her children of her own free will.

Their concern was only compounded by the circumstances surrounding the last confirmed sighting of Guidici. She was last seen on June 12th in the local Norristown McDonald’s parking lot around 9:00 in the morning. According to the Find Missing Jessica Guidici page, “She was last seen with Alex Webster, who has also since gone missing. Webster has deleted his Facebook account…According to the press release, Jessica was in visible distress when she was last seen.” Other witnesses told various media outlets she was visibly upset and crying.

Despite these reports, her case was not being treated as suspicious.  In a Facebook post, one of Guidici’s close friends expressed her frustration, “Even if she WAS MAD AT HER MOM AND FELL IN LOVE AND WANTED TO RUN AWAY, she would have called one of us. No matter what.” It sounds ludicrous given the reported circumstances of her last sighting, but this is not uncommon in the case of missing adults. Without any evidence of a disturbance, law enforcement are not always able to assume the worst right away, as adults can come and go without explanation.

On June 27th, Norristown law enforcement reported Jessica Guidici had been found safe. She told investigators she dropped out of contact with her family of her own free will and advised she had never been in danger. While her family can breathe a sigh of relief she’s been found alive, the circumstances of her disappearance still remain a mystery.

This is a developing story…

Carie McMichael is the Communications and Media Specialist for Lauth Investigations International, writing about investigative topics such as missing persons and corporate investigations. To learn more about what we do, please visit our website.