Pregnant 18-year-old’s body likely found in car in ‘possible murder,’ Texas police say
_fitted.png "Police are searching for a missing 18-year-old, pregnant Texas woman who disappeared before she was scheduled to give birth at a hospital, her family says.")
UPDATE: Police believe they have found the bodies of pregnant 18-year-old Savanah Soto and her boyfriend in a vehicle in San Antonio, Texas, in what they described as a “perplexing” case. San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus said Tuesday, Nov. 26, that “detectives right now are looking at this as a possible murder, but we don’t know for sure.”
The original story continues below.
An 18-year-old pregnant woman is missing after she didn’t show up to a hospital appointment, and authorities believe she’s in danger, Texas police told news outlets.
Savanah Soto, of Leon Valley, was last seen at about 2 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 22, police told KSAT.
Soto was supposed to go to the hospital that day to give birth, investigators said, the outlet reported. Doctors were going to induce labor, her family told police, but Soto never arrived.
Authorities issued a CLEAR Alert for Soto on Dec. 25, KTRK reported.
Such alerts are made in cases where “missing, kidnapped or abducted adults … are in immediate danger of injury or death,” according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Soto’s friends and family met at Valencia Lofts, the apartment complex where she was last seen, to spread word of her disappearance and launch a search of their own, KENS reported.
“I pray to God every day, every minute, every second of the day we pray to God to bring her home, to bring her home safely because we need her home, to complete our family again,” Soto’s grandmother, Rachel Soto, told the TV station.
Soto has brown hair and eyes and weighs about 115 pounds, KTRK reported. Anyone with information about her disappearance is asked to call the Leon Valley Police Department at 210-812-3259.
This story was originally published December 26, 2023 at 10:07 AM.