San Diego mother and father who vanished are discovered useless in murder-suicide

A San Diego couple who vanished days earlier than Christmas have been discovered useless in a automotive in what’s being investigated as a murder-suicide after disturbing Ring digital camera footage confirmed the night time they disappeared. 

Melissa, 45, and Johnny Soto, 52, went lacking from their residence within the San Ysidro district of San Diego on Wednesday, December 20. The couple, who had been married for 20 years and have three grownup youngsters, not too long ago separated. 

San Diego police introduced Wednesday that that they had carried out a search with US Customs and Border Patrol and located a automotive ‘related to’ the disappearance.

They didn’t establish the our bodies, solely to say they had been a 52-year-old Hispanic man and 45-year-old Filipina feminine married couple ‘dwelling individually.’ 

Authorities consider their deaths to be a murder-suicide, with the person capturing the girl earlier than killing himself. 

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In Ring digital camera footage, Melissa is seen pulling into the driveway of her estranged husband’s residence about 8.51pm on the night time they disappeared, whereas Johnny, who had been at a piece vacation social gathering, is seen returning in his truck about an hour later.

The couple’s son, Vincent, mentioned his father then sat down with him to observe TV. A couple of minutes later, nonetheless, Vincent was requested by his father to depart the house. 

Within the following quarter-hour, Melissa’s automotive is seen exiting the driveway – solely to repark in reverse. A neighbor’s surveillance digital camera reveals the storage door and Melissa’ automotive’s trunk open about six minutes later, and John’s truck is nowhere to be discovered.

The couple’s children at the moment are fearful sick, after Melissa left behind her pockets and different private belongings.

Vincent, who was the final to see the couple, instructed NBC San Diego that it ‘felt like a traditional night time’. 

‘[My dad] was simply sitting right here watching TV like he all the time does. And my mother and father, they all the time discuss. 

‘He requested me, ‘Hey, Vinny, can you allow for a minute? We’re going to speak. So I left the home, not assuming something,’ he mentioned.

Vincent mentioned he left the house for about an hour-and-a-half earlier than he bought a textual content from his dad saying that that they had left, and the coast was clear. 

However, neither he nor his sisters Alexia and Elise have heard from him since. The couple additionally failed to indicate as much as their respective locations of labor.

A search has since ensued, with the siblings saying it is not like their mother and father to depart and never come again.   

‘Him and my mother, they like to speak and get collectively,’ Vincent instructed ABC 10 – whereas additionally revealing the couple had a considerably rocky relationship and not too long ago separated after 20 years.

‘So whereas they had been speaking, they wish to go take the truck,’ he continued, citing the way it was not out of the strange for the couple to take off in his dad’s silver Tacoma truck.

‘[Johnny] known as me, he is like, ‘Hey Vincent, we’re going go to the truck for just a little bit,” he additional remembered.

‘That’s the final time I heard from him.’

The household has since filed a report with the native police division, and thus far, per week into their investigation, the surveillance digital camera clips function their solely actual clues. 

In them, Melissa’s automotive is seen pulling automotive pulls into the driveway at 8:51 p.m

‘You can see somebody getting out of automotive,’ neighbor Raymond Arzola mentioned, citing the clip taken from a digital camera stationed at his close by home. 

‘You might inform it is most probably a person due to the denims and the blue jacket,’ he added. ‘I often see Johnny put on a blue jacket.’

Then at 10:19 p.m., Melissa’s automotive pulls out of the driveway after which reparks in reverse.

About 14 minutes later, that very same man is seen entering into his silver Toyota after pulling off the parking maneuver in Melissa’s automotive – earlier than driving off round 10:33pm.

In this clip, Melissa is noticeably absent, at the same time as her automotive sits within the driveway for round quarter-hour.

‘My dad had his telephone and his pockets, however my mother did not have her telephone, pockets, or her keys,’ Alexia Soto, the eldest, mentioned. 

‘Even although they had been separated, there have been like no points between them in any respect,’ she added of the pair’s strained relationship, which she and her siblings mentioned took a flip in July.

‘They had been nonetheless involved,’ she mentioned, citing how her mother would nonetheless recurrently go to the couple’s outdated home.

‘They nonetheless talked. She would come over [to Johnny’s house] and discuss.’

DailyMail.com has reached out to the San Diego Police Department for an replace on their investigation. 

The footage launched by the household additional fuels their uncertainty, because it reveals who many consider to be Johnny shifting across the scene with out his spouse, and somebody seemingly fiddling along with her car earlier than Johnny’s truck takes off.

Aunt Christina Sandoval additional famous on Tuesday how the couple ‘left with no garments,’ telling the native NBC affiliate ‘[they] left with nothing. All his garments that he wears usually, just like the sweats there within the bed room. 

‘Her telephone was left right here. Her pockets was left right here,’ she continued, because the seek for the couple on Wednesday continued. 

‘Her keys had been left right here after which his telephone was turned off about 15 to twenty minutes after he left right here.’

Despite the array of ominous clue, the siblings instructed the information stations that they’re staying robust. 

‘We’ve all the time had like a very robust, like, sibling dynamic,’ Alexia, 23, instructed NBC 7.

‘No matter what occurs, we’re all the time ensuring we’re watching out for one another.’

Sandoval, in the meantime, has began a GoFundMe to assist with ‘groceries and any payments’ for the household as they search, and all three are pleading with the general public to contact them or police with any leads which will assist them discover their mother and father.

Two of the sibling, in the meantime, left their mother and pa with an emotional message as cops proceed to look, telling them to contact them as quickly as doable if they’re listening.

‘Even in the event that they did go someplace and plan to remain out for some time, not less than message or name considered one of us to allow us to all know they’re each okay,’ mentioned Alexia.

Elise added: ‘And that we love them.’

Officers’ search, in the meantime, stays ongoing. Both of the Sotos have been declared lacking individuals.