SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MISSING MOTHER.Byline: Anne Burke Daily News Staff Writer A year later, police say they are no closer to finding out what happened to Sandra Nevarez than they were the day the mother of four mysteriously disappeared from a busy shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . "What little information we had, we ran as far as we could," said Detective Frank Bishop of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Department's Foothill Division. "It's still a mystery." Nevarez's loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl have not given up. Husband Pete, 41, said he has hired a private detective and psychic. The couple's children, ages 17 to 24, still tack missing-person fliers to shop windows and telephone poles. Sandra, who would be 42, was last seen Jan. 17 at a Hubbard Street Hubbard Street is a road in Chicago, Illinois named for early settler Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Where Hubbard Street passes over the Kennedy Expressway, the Expressway enters a tunnel made up of surface streets known as colloquially as "Hubbard's Cave. Laundromat, a few blocks from her Sylmar home. Witnesses put her there at about 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Police suspect foul play foul play n. Unfair or treacherous action, especially when involving violence. foul play Noun 1. violent activity esp. murder 2. . Blood matching her type was smeared on the ground near her Chevrolet Nova The Chevrolet Nova or Chevy II was an American compact car introduced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors in 1962. The original Chevy II was of unibody construction, powered by an OHV inline-four or 6-cylinder engine, and available in two-door and four-door sedan , parked outside the laundry. A body appeared to have been dragged through it, police said. Her purse was on the ground behind a rear tire. Cash and credit cards were still inside, but her keys were missing. In the trunk were laundry bags containing clean clothes for a weekend trip that Sandra and Pete planned to take in celebration of their 23rd wedding anniversary. Police said they have received no substantial leads. Family members were investigated as a routine procedure. No evidence against them surfaced, Bishop said. A $25,000 reward from the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. has not been touched. That is particularly troubling to family members, who believe that a woman cannot be taken violently from a crowded shopping plaza shopping plazaNoun a shopping centre, usually a small group of stores built as a strip without somebody seeing something. "Someone was watching her, someone did this on purpose," said daughter Tanya, 21, who moved back home after her mother's disappearance to keep house for her father and brothers, Anthony, 24, and Joseph, 17. On Feb. 2, a segment on Sandra's disappearance is set to air on NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries." Family members hope the show will succeed, where their efforts, and those of police, have failed. "A lot of other people say, 'Hey, forget it. She's dead. She's not coming back.' How do they know?" said Pete, a driver for 20th Century Fox. CAPTION(S): PHOTO (1) SANDRA NEVAREZ (2) Tanya Nevarez looks at pictures of her mother, Sandra, who disappeared in Sylmar in January 1995. Michael Owen Baker/Daily News |
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