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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Family wants help to find missing Spanish teacher

by

Sascha Wilson
2205 days ago
20190702
Professionally created photos of what Susan Maynard may be looking like now

Professionally created photos of what Susan Maynard may be looking like now

Eight months have passed since Span­ish teacher Su­san May­nard dis­ap­peared with­out a trace, but her fam­i­ly has not giv­en up hope that she will be found alive.

With the help of a pro­fes­sion­al, the fam­i­ly cre­at­ed three pho­tographs of what May­nard could be look­ing like now.

In the pho­tos May­nard’s fa­cial fea­tures are slight­ly al­tered and the hair­style is dif­fer­ent.

“We are ask­ing every­one to take a care­ful look at these pho­tos and if they have seen her or know of her where­abouts to please con­tact the po­lice,” ap­pealed her moth­er Claris­sa Jones, 65.

May­nard, who will cel­e­brate her 42nd birth­day on Au­gust 26, went miss­ing on Sep­tem­ber 4, 2018, un­der mys­te­ri­ous cir­cum­stances which con­tin­ue to baf­fle her fam­i­ly.

She was last seen by her moth­er around 1.30 pm when she left home to buy a phone card at a near­by par­lour, along the Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road, in Ch­agua­nas.

In an email sent to the Guardian Me­dia, the fam­i­ly said, “Some­one must have seen her. We are there­fore plead­ing that any­one with in­for­ma­tion, please come for­ward and con­tact her moth­er or the po­lice so that we may en­sure her safe re­turn.”

The fam­i­ly be­lieves some­one might be hold­ing her against her will.

“We know that if she she was able to re­turn home, she would have. Thus, we are ap­peal­ing if any­one has her to re­lease her. She is not well and needs to be un­der med­ical su­per­vi­sion.We place a pho­to of her show­ing how she may look now.”

De­spite the tor­ture they are feel­ing, the fam­i­ly urged oth­er fam­i­lies fac­ing sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tions not to give up hope.

“We feel for any fam­i­ly who is fac­ing an or­deal such as this. We can on­ly say to those fam­i­lies, ‘don’t give up, keep pray­ing and nev­er lose hope.”

Jones be­lieves her daugh­ter, the fourth of her six chil­dren, will one day re­turn to her. “As her moth­er I know she is still alive and out there. I just have a feel­ing.”

She said the past eight months have been very dif­fi­cult for the fam­i­ly.

“We have put fliers through­out Trinidad and To­ba­go and we have not got­ten any re­sponse. We got some in­for­ma­tion, but when the po­lice went to check, it was false.”

Jones said the po­lice are still search­ing for her. Re­call­ing the last day she saw her daugh­ter, she said May­nard went to a doc­tors’s ap­point­ment, but when she re­turned home she was not feel­ing her­self.

When her daugh­ter did not re­turn home from the par­lour, Jones said she con­tact­ed her son who is a po­lice­man and then they made a re­port at the po­lice sta­tion.

Their in­quires re­vealed that May­nard got to the en­trance of the par­lour but turned back, nev­er to be seen again.

May­nard did not have her cell­phone with her. Any­one with in­for­ma­tion is be­ing asked to con­tact the po­lice or May­nard’s fam­i­ly at 341-7952 or 399-1034.


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