After an anguishing search that spanned more than three weeks, Sydney Marquez, a 24-year-old woman missing since earlier this month, has been found safe. Information provided by her family confirmed the end of a frantic search that had extended throughout the southwest Houston area. The family relayed they were en route to Houston but kept the circumstances regarding Sydney’s recovery to themselves, as mentioned in a report by KHOU 11 News.
During the search, the Marquez family had been outspoken, pleading for any information related to their daughter’s whereabouts. “If you see my daughter, if she’s endangered. Please don’t stay quiet,” Raul Marquez, Sydney’s father, said in his plea for public assistance, as reported by KHOU 11 News. Adding urgency to the situation, the family specifically raised concerns about Sydney’s mental health; she was not taking her medication at the time she vanished. The last sighting of her was near the 9100 block of Bellaire Boulevard, close to Ranchester Road, a detail shared by the Houston Police Department.
Immigrant rights advocacy group FIEL had joined the search, with the organization helping to amplify the Marquez family’s quest for answers, ensuring that everyone felt they could come forward with information, disregarding their immigration status. This was detailed in the coverage by KPRC 2, noting that Sydney Marquez was last spotted leaving a friend’s car on the night she disappeared. Witnesses suggested she might have boarded a northbound METRO bus, a lead that has prompted the retrieval and examination of bus surveillance footage…