Concern grows for a San Diego, CA couple that hasn’t been seen since Wednesday of last week.
NBC7 reports the three grown adult children of Johnny and Melissa Soto would normally open their presents on Christmas Eve. Instead, their presents remain wrapped under the tree and they spent the day before Christmas handing out missing person flyers.
“We’re worried, scared,” middle sibling Elise Soto said. “It’s not like them to do this. We just want them home.”
The couple recently separated but remained friendly and the children said Melissa would often come over the house to speak with her husband.
“Even though they were separated, there were like no issues between them at all,” Alexia Soto said to ABC10. “They were still in contact. They still talked. She would come over [to Johnny’s house] and talk.”
Johnny and Melissa had been married for 20 years. Ring camera footage shows Melissa pulling into the driveway of her husband the night they disappeared, the Daily Mail reports.
The husband returns home about an hour after Melissa arrived there. Son Vincent said he was watching TV with his father when his dad asked him to leave.
Melissa’s car is then seen leaving the driveway but then promptly returning in reverse. The garage door and Melissa’s trunk would open a few minutes later and John’s truck disappears.
He had phoned one of his sons to say they were going to take the truck for a drive which wasn’t out of the ordinary.
“That’s the last time I heard from him,” said Vincent Soto.
Melissa’s phone and wallet remain at the house while Johnny apparently still has his with him. However, his phone has been turned off. The family has filed a missing person report with police. The search remains ongoing.
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