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Dulce Maria Alavez — Missing for Two Years With No Suspects
Have you seen this child?
Last week marked the second anniversary of the evening 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez went missing from a Bridgeton, New Jersey playground. In the months after Dulce’s disappearance, the community around her continued to search the woods around the park for her. Two years later, they are no closer to finding Dulce or answers to what happened to her on that day — but they’ve not given up hope.
There was nothing out of the ordinary about September 16, 2019 — the day this nightmare began. Dulce’s mother purchased ice cream and a lottery ticket at a local store with her family. What might have been her lucky day instead turned out to be anything but that. Surveillance footage retrieved by police shows Dulce in that location with her 19-year-old mother, Noema Alavez Perez; her 3-year-old brother; and Perez’s 8-year-old sister.
Afterward, around 4 p.m., they arrived in nearby Bridgeton Park. Dulce and her brother went to play on the swings while their…
