VICTOR TREJO - 14 yo (1986) Las Cruces NM

Victor Trejo would have just celebrated his 39th birthday a few weeks ago. Perhaps he did. No one knows.The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is asking the public's help in finding him.He's been missing for 25 years.

A former Sierra Middle School student, Trejo was 14 and involved in gang
activity when he disappeared the afternoon of April 8, 1986, from
Apodaca Park. He had met with his juvenile probation officer that day,
then asked his mother to take him to a friend's home at the Dona Ana
Apartments. He never returned home.His friend told police the two of them had gone to Apodaca Park, and
that Trejo had gone to the toilets around 2:30 p.m. and never returned. Someone certainly knows what happened, said Las Cruces Police Department Detective Mark Myers. It's still an open investigation,'' Myers said last month. We still
get leads, occasionally, that we aggressively follow up on ... but we've
interviewed a couple hundred people in this case, and we probably
interviewed some of the people who might know something. But, for
whatever reason, they're not telling us.''Officers talked to Trejo's associates and people in rival gangs, but no
one admitted any knowledge of what happened to the 14-year-old. These guys have grown up and loyalties have changed, but no one's ever
given us any useful - real useful - information,'' Myers said.Though some have speculated the disappearance was related to Trejo's gang activity, detectives never decided on a motive, Myers said. For all we know, it was some traveling child molester who snatched him
up,'' Myers said. He was involved in gang activity, and our gang
activity at that time was very active, and there was some violence
associated with it, but we can't rule out him being abducted for other
reasons. Remember, in 1986, we didn't have all the tools we have now,
like (the National Crime Information Center database) and (the Violent
Criminal Apprehension Program), ways to talk to other agencies. He just
vanished.''The morning after his disappearance, Trejo's friend - who came to get
him every day - didn't show up, almost as if he knew Trejo wouldn't be
there, Trejo's mother, Beatriz Aldaco, told the Sun-News in 2006.Then the calls to Trejo's family started. One caller told his sister the
boy's body parts had been spread all over, from the river to behind
A' Mountain.'' One asked if I was Victor's mom,'' Aldaco told the Sun-News in 2006,
and they said, You should know that he was killed and chopped up.'
They would say, Just want you to know.'''Police scoured an estimated 15 locations where they believed Trejo's body could have been dumped, but found nothing, Myers said. As a mother, I don't know what to feel,'' said Aldaco in the 2006
interview. It's a blank hole inside of me. It's like a piece of my
heart was taken away.'' We believe that someone out there knows what happened,'' Myers said.
This kid's family is still grieving and needs the certainty that comes
with getting some questions answered. We need to find him and bring him
home to his mom.''He added, Over this period of time, we would hope that loyalties would
change or that someone would find it in their heart to come forward and
help us find him.''A Hispanic male with brown hair, brown eyes and a scar on his right
cheek, Trejo was 5-foot-7 and weighed 135 pounds when he was last seen. A
$2,000 reward offered in 2008 by Las Cruces Crime Stoppers for
information on Trejo's disappearance remains unclaimed.
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