HOUSTON – An El Paso family is urgently searching for their daughter, who disappeared while visiting friends in Houston earlier this month. Investigators say 24-year-old Sydney Marquez was last seen in southwest Houston, and her father has been pleading for access to video from a METRO bus she may have boarded—video that authorities now confirm has been retrieved.
Sydney was last seen near the 9100 block of Bellaire Boulevard on December 11, according to investigators. Surveillance video shows her walking away after leaving a friend’s car running in the street. Witnesses later told her father she may have boarded a northbound METRO bus at the intersection of Gessner and Harwin, on route 46 going northbound on Gessner towards the Little York area.
Her father, Raul Marquez, says obtaining the bus video is critical to understanding what happened next…