SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Jordan Gonzales went missing from Salt Lake City in March of 2024. Seventeen months later, his family is still looking for closure and is asking the public to help them.
Jordan Gonzales was officially reported as an at-risk missing person on March 13, 2024. It has now been seventeen months since his disappearance, with no updates and no answers. His mother, Jill Bearden, says Jordan’s family is still praying for answers.
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Jill Bearden told ABC4.com about Jordan’s history. Her son struggled with addiction after being injured in a construction accident almost a decade ago. She said Jordan was also hospitalized after a car accident.
The car accident left Jordan fully blind in one eye and partially blind in the other. Additionally, he had injuries that required physical rehab and a traumatic brain injury that has caused seizures and required facial reconstruction surgery. Because of those injuries, Salt Lake City Police Department reported Jordan as an at-risk missing person
Jordan’s Disappearance
Jordan Gonzales’s family has not seen or spoken to him since March 10, 2024, when he visited his daughter. His girlfriend also reported that she got into an argument with Jordan and he walked off sometime between the 10th and 12th. The last time Jordan messaged anyone on Facebook, his primary form of contact, was also March 12th, 2024.
Jill told ABC4.com that she last spoke to Jordan, then 34-years-old, on March 9, 2024, after he was recently released from jail. She says “During that time, we talked several times a day, every day, and we had a plan. I was like, as long as I know ahead of time what you need, I will come and give you rides…I’ll take you to do all the things they need you to do so that you actually have help.”…