TX JENNIFER MENDEZ OLASCOAGA: Missing from Seagoville, TX - 27 Sept 2023 - Age 24 *Found Deceased**ARREST*

Dallas ISD educator missing, police say text messages may indicate foul play

Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga, 24, is believed to have gone missing after dropping a friend off at a mobile home park in Seagoville, Texas, on Sept. 27.

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Dallas ISD educator missing, police say text messages may indicate foul play​

A teacher’s assistant missing in Texas for a week is believed to be in danger as police say text messages received by a friend may indicate foul play was involved in her disappearance.

Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga, a 24-year-old teacher’s assistant with the Dallas Independent School District, has been missing since Sept. 27, the Seagoville Police Department said.

Family members said that her unexplained disappearance is not considered normal behavior.

"She always makes it home, she was very punctual at work, she didn't show up the next day, we said this is not okay, something is going on," Litzy Mendez, Mendez Olascoaga's cousin, told FOX4 Dallas-Fort Worth.

Family members believe her vehicle was last seen on surveillance cameras that day at about 8:00 p.m. in the Creekside Mobile Home Park located at 2510 U.S. HWY 175 in Seagoville, where she dropped off a friend.

Mendez Olascoaga’s abandoned vehicle, a white 2015 Buick La Crosse, was located by family members on the following day near the intersection of Milam Road and Lawson Road in Mesquite, according to police.

Family told police that friends of Mendez Olascoaga had received strange text messages regarding the missing woman.

"We got some random text messages, a friend of hers got them, ‘hey are you missing someone,’ ‘you’re never gonna find her and you’re never gonna see her again,’" Marco Barroso, Mendez Olascoaga’s brother-in-law told the station.

Police are looking at the text messages and say that their content indicates that foul play may have been involved in Mendez Olascoaga’s disappearance.

Family members initially reported Mendez Olascoaga as missing to the Dallas Police Department on Sept. 28. Officers directed the family to the Seagoville Police Department upon learning that she was reportedly last seen in Seagoville.

Authorities asked anyone with information, leads, or surveillance video from the area where Mendez Olascoaga was last seen or where her vehicle was discovered to contact Seagoville police.


MEDIA - JENNIFER MENDEZ OLASCOAGA: Missing from Seagoville, TX - 27 Sept 2023 - Age 24

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Dallas ISD teacher assistant missing after reportedly dropping off friend at mobile home park

Seagoville police and the Texas Rangers are looking for missing 24-year-old Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga who they believe could be in danger.

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Dallas ISD teacher assistant missing after reportedly dropping off friend at mobile home park​

Seagoville police and the Texas Rangers are looking for a missing 24-year-old woman who they believe could be in danger, but her family is conducting their own searches in hopes to find clues.

Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga, a teacher assistant in Dallas ISD, was last seen on surveillance cameras around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 27 in the Creekside Mobile Home Park on Hwy 175 in Seagoville.

Mendez was reportedly at the location for a short time to drop off a friend.

"When we found out that she never made it home that Wednesday night, it was a hint, like, hey, something's going on. She always makes it home, she was very punctual at work, she didn't show up the next day, we said this is not okay, something is going on," said Litzy Mendez, Jennifer's cousin.

Family members found her white 2015 Buick La Cross was found in Mesquite at the next at the intersection of Milam Road and Lawson Road.

"When we came to look at it, it didn’t look abnormal. Nothing abnormal on the inside," said Marco Barroso, Mendez's brother-in-law.

A Seagoville police detective searched Mendez's car and found her wallet.

On Sunday, Seagoville police officially opened a missing persons investigation.

The Texas Rangers later joined the search and the family gave investigators a starting point.

"We got some random text messages, a friend of hers got them, ‘hey are you missing someone,’ ‘you’re never gonna find her and you’re never gonna see her again,’" said Barroso.

Police say that they are looking into text messages and that foul play has not been ruled out.

"We have a lot of leads we have followed up on," said Sam Click, the Public Information Officer for the Seagoville Police Department.

So far, none of those leads have discovered Mendez, so the family goes back every day to the area where her car was found.

The family searches for clues and hands out flyers to anyone who stops.

"This is someone that obviously a lot of people are searching for, this is something that we are taking very seriously," said Click.

The family says where her car was found is not on the way home from the mobile home park where she dropped off her friend.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Search intensifies for missing Dallas ISD teacher's assistant over a week after disappearance

The desperate search for a missing Dallas ISD employee continued Friday as friends and family of Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga gathered in Seagoville where the 24-year-old was last seen.

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Search intensifies for missing Dallas ISD teacher's assistant over a week after disappearance​

The desperate search for a missing Dallas ISD employee continued Friday as friends and family of Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga gathered in Seagoville where the 24-year-old was last seen.

“We’re just out here on Belt Line trying to get maybe some footage, spread the word out here if anybody saw her last. You know, just trying to get something,” said Mendez Olascoaga’s brother-in-law Marco Barroso.

Thursday, Barroso said the family learned of surveillance footage showing Mendez Olascoaga at a QuickTrip gas station along BeltLine and Highway 175 shortly after 8 p.m. on the night of Sept. 27.

Mendez Olascoaga’s white Buick sedan was found abandoned along rural Lawson Road in Mesquite the next morning.

Her purse and phone were both missing.

It’s the family’s first new information in days that Barroso said the family hopes will lead to more.

“If you know anything, if you’ve seen that car here on Belt Line that night, maybe she was being followed by somebody that night. If anything, call the police department,” he said.

As loved ones desperately search for answers, Barroso said what they do believe is that Mendez Olascoaga would not have disappeared by choice, leaving behind a job she enjoyed as a Dallas ISD teacher’s assistant and abandoning a car she had nearly paid off.

They also worry about text messages sent to a friend from an untraceable number saying, ‘Hey, do you miss someone? Do you miss someone? You’ll never find her. She’s gone. Jennifer Mendez and you’re next’.”

Still, the family pushes forward.

“I have hope that she’s ok somewhere, but it’s very hard to talk about that,” said Barroso.

Seagoville PD confirms there is an open investigation into her disappearance but has yet to release any new information or announce any official search efforts.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Search intensifies for missing Dallas ISD teacher's assistant over a week after disappearance

The desperate search for a missing Dallas ISD employee continued Friday as friends and family of Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga gathered in Seagoville where the 24-year-old was last seen.

www.nbcdfw.com

Search intensifies for missing Dallas ISD teacher's assistant over a week after disappearance​

The desperate search for a missing Dallas ISD employee continued Friday as friends and family of Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga gathered in Seagoville where the 24-year-old was last seen.

“We’re just out here on Belt Line trying to get maybe some footage, spread the word out here if anybody saw her last. You know, just trying to get something,” said Mendez Olascoaga’s brother-in-law Marco Barroso.

Thursday, Barroso said the family learned of surveillance footage showing Mendez Olascoaga at a QuickTrip gas station along BeltLine and Highway 175 shortly after 8 p.m. on the night of Sept. 27.

Mendez Olascoaga’s white Buick sedan was found abandoned along rural Lawson Road in Mesquite the next morning.

Her purse and phone were both missing.

It’s the family’s first new information in days that Barroso said the family hopes will lead to more.

“If you know anything, if you’ve seen that car here on Belt Line that night, maybe she was being followed by somebody that night. If anything, call the police department,” he said.

As loved ones desperately search for answers, Barroso said what they do believe is that Mendez Olascoaga would not have disappeared by choice, leaving behind a job she enjoyed as a Dallas ISD teacher’s assistant and abandoning a car she had nearly paid off.

They also worry about text messages sent to a friend from an untraceable number saying, ‘Hey, do you miss someone? Do you miss someone? You’ll never find her. She’s gone. Jennifer Mendez and you’re next’.”

Still, the family pushes forward.

“I have hope that she’s ok somewhere, but it’s very hard to talk about that,” said Barroso.

Seagoville PD confirms there is an open investigation into her disappearance but has yet to release any new information or announce any official search efforts.

Well, that message pretty much says almost everything. She's dead and somebody is tormenting her friend from a burner phone. This reminds me of the LISK case. Do we have a serial killer now?

 

[GrandmaBear]

Friend was dropped off around 8 and gas station was just after 8, so close to the same I'd like to know which was first. I assume the friend...

Something isn't coming together for me in this case and not sure what it is.

A few things that do bother--how did anyone get the friend's cell number to text such a message. I mean I guess he could have taken it out of the victim's phone but seems stupid of a perp to have it or turn it on, etc. I guess you can look up a number without it having service but what perp thinks of that... Her purse and cell phone weren't in her car. Again why even take them? Take money if that is a motive and leave the purse and phone. It's just risk for a perp to take such and have them on him.

Is the friend male or female? Why the ride? From where? Had they been out to dinner, shopping or what?

That text could have come from ANYBODY, even the victim, OR someone who heard she was missing online and went with a fake text to bother, wouldn't be the first time hoaxes like that are played by weirdos out there when they know a family or friends are missing a loved one. The friend could have even sent it from a burner to their own regular phone.

Not enough is known here. She could even have taken off of her own free will which at least would have her alive, with her purse and with her phone.

On the other hand she could well have been abducted and killed. But by who and why?

There is just too little known. Did she live at home or have her own place? Bf? Kids?

Did she get gas at the station? Or POP and and a snack? Could her car be seen on camera and no one else got into it? Or is there only video of her?

I know there aren't answers, just saying there are questions though with no answers.

Again something doesn't sit right but not even sure what it is and it is probably due to missing info...

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Friend was dropped off around 8 and gas station was just after 8, so close to the same I'd like to know which was first. I assume the friend...

Something isn't coming together for me in this case and not sure what it is.

A few things that do bother--how did anyone get the friend's cell number to text such a message. I mean I guess he could have taken it out of the victim's phone but seems stupid of a perp to have it or turn it on, etc. I guess you can look up a number without it having service but what perp thinks of that... Her purse and cell phone weren't in her car. Again why even take them? Take money if that is a motive and leave the purse and phone. It's just risk for a perp to take such and have them on him.

Is the friend male or female? Why the ride? From where? Had they been out to dinner, shopping or what?

That text could have come from ANYBODY, even the victim, OR someone who heard she was missing online and went with a fake text to bother, wouldn't be the first time hoaxes like that are played by weirdos out there when they know a family or friends are missing a loved one. The friend could have even sent it from a burner to their own regular phone.

Not enough is known here. She could even have taken off of her own free will which at least would have her alive, with her purse and with her phone.

On the other hand she could well have been abducted and killed. But by who and why?

There is just too little known. Did she live at home or have her own place? Bf? Kids?

Did she get gas at the station? Or POP and and a snack? Could her car be seen on camera and no one else got into it? Or is there only video of her?

I know there aren't answers, just saying there are questions though with no answers.

Again something doesn't sit right but not even sure what it is and it is probably due to missing info...

I'd assume he got the friends number from her phone. He didn't want to use her phone.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I'd assume he got the friends number from her phone. He didn't want to use her phone.

Could be certainly but I see no reason to assume it. The friend, the victim, their friends, their families all could have his/her number (friend's #) and of course the friend herself/himself has their own number. Also if the friend has been active on different SM platforms looking for answers, it could have come about that way. This could be just some nasty person unrelated to anything or to them and not a perp getting their jollies from doing such a thing.

I don't see anything here yet to indicate foul play quite honestly. And I sure don't see how you jump to a serial killer thought.

 

[Guess Who]

I'd assume he got the friends number from her phone. He didn't want to use her phone.

Or somebody knew the friend and found or even already had her number.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Could be certainly but I see no reason to assume it. The friend, the victim, their friends, their families all could have his/her number (friend's #) and of course the friend herself/himself has their own number. Also if the friend has been active on different SM platforms looking for answers, it could have come about that way. This could be just some nasty person unrelated to anything or to them and not a perp getting their jollies from doing such a thing.

I don't see anything here yet to indicate foul play quite honestly. And I sure don't see how you jump to a serial killer thought.

It's what Cry Baby did to his victims families. If he knew the person he called he'd be risking them recognizing his voice.

 

[Guess Who]

It's what Cry Baby did to his victims families. If he knew the person he called he'd be risking them recognizing his voice.

All you have to do is either disguise your voice with readily available phone apps or have a friend do it.

 

[Kimster]

The phone may be untraceable on the surface, but I do believe it can be traced. Even many untraceable phones are traceable these days.

I think they’re going to find out who was texting.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Seagoville police release new surveillance video of missing Dallas ISD employee who could be in danger

Seagoville Police released new surveillance video of a missing Dallas ISD employee who they believe could be in danger.

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Seagoville police release new surveillance video of missing Dallas ISD employee who could be in danger​

Seagoville Police released new surveillance video of a missing Dallas ISD employee who they believe could be in danger.

The new video shows 24-year-old Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga, a teacher assistant in Dallas ISD, at a Quik Trip on US HWY 175 and Belt Line Road in Dallas on Sept. 27.

In the video, she is parked at a gas pump and goes inside to buy food and a drink.

She then puts gas in her car and drives off.

The video was taken after Mendez dropped a friend off at the Creekside Mobile Home Park in Seagoville.

The mobile home park was where police previously believed that she was last seen.

Family members found her white 2015 Buick La Cross was found in Mesquite at the next at the intersection of Milam Road and Lawson Road.

A Seagoville police detective searched Mendez's car and found her wallet.

Police say that they are looking into text messages and that foul play has not been ruled out.

The family has held several searches in the area where Mendez's car was found.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Seagoville police release new surveillance video of missing Dallas ISD employee who could be in danger

Seagoville Police released new surveillance video of a missing Dallas ISD employee who they believe could be in danger.

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Seagoville police release new surveillance video of missing Dallas ISD employee who could be in danger​

Seagoville Police released new surveillance video of a missing Dallas ISD employee who they believe could be in danger.

The new video shows 24-year-old Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga, a teacher assistant in Dallas ISD, at a Quik Trip on US HWY 175 and Belt Line Road in Dallas on Sept. 27.

In the video, she is parked at a gas pump and goes inside to buy food and a drink.

She then puts gas in her car and drives off.

The video was taken after Mendez dropped a friend off at the Creekside Mobile Home Park in Seagoville.

The mobile home park was where police previously believed that she was last seen.

Family members found her white 2015 Buick La Cross was found in Mesquite at the next at the intersection of Milam Road and Lawson Road.

A Seagoville police detective searched Mendez's car and found her wallet.

Police say that they are looking into text messages and that foul play has not been ruled out.

The family has held several searches in the area where Mendez's car was found.

Hmmm. Not enough to go on. I am leaning just a slight hair in one direction but I have no real reason for it.

They say foul play has not been ruled out but they don't say such is suspected either.

On the other hand why would you put gas in your car to go nowhere...

They say this is a released video but what I watched clearly isn't a full one. How much gas, where does she come back outside, etc., etc.?

IF the text messages are not bogus or a hurtful prank, THEY are the key. She could have sent them, friend could have to self, actual perp who somehow has friends number and so on...

Why is it they only release a bit or two? Seriously. If there isn't anything to hide then get it all out there.

 

[Kimster]

My first theory was something happened at the friends' house but now that's debunked by the video surveillance. Maybe she did walk off and is taking a break? I've seen it happen before. I do hope that's what it is and she's found safe sooner than later!

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

My first theory was something happened at the friends' house but now that's debunked by the video surveillance. Maybe she did walk off and is taking a break? I've seen it happen before. I do hope that's what it is and she's found safe sooner than later!

The only thing that doesn't fit with that is...why fill up your car with gas only to abandon it?
Could have been done to intentionally mislead, I suppose. But still strange.

 

[Kimster]

The only thing that doesn't fit with that is...why fill up your car with gas only to abandon it?
Could have been done to intentionally mislead, I suppose. But still strange.

True.

 

[GrandmaBear]

My first theory was something happened at the friends' house but now that's debunked by the video surveillance. Maybe she did walk off and is taking a break? I've seen it happen before. I do hope that's what it is and she's found safe sooner than later!

You aren't alone. My first thought was friend's home too and who she took home. It is so often the case and cops/investigators start inside the circle and work out and tell us that right? Even with this new video I tried to work it, did she run get a drink and snack and go back to friend's? By the way is it cemented that she dropped friend off prior? Proof of friend going in home, etc.

WHY do they not share an entire video if nothing obvious is on it like at this gas station? She could have put in $3 of gas or filled her tank but it makes no sense she would add gas and then abandon her vehicle unless she was just so low she did not dare drive another mile AND she may have only done it to be SEEN on video if she was planning her own disappearance and to confuse it/people/LE.

We don't think like that but after Carlee R I have to ask that in a case such as this. That is sad, that's what people like Carlee do to real missing people, make LE wonder, all wonder is this true or a hoax?

Best case scenario is she walked off but then is she trying to cause an investigation by getting gas for her car and then not going anywhere with it? That alone would make it a scheme versus taking a break that's no one's business.

BUT I am not assuming she took off as it would be ignoring what well could be an abduction or worse.

I don't see why they didn't share the entire footage. Not wanting a perp to know or see that he or his car is on it? To keep her safe? Any perp though would be like us and known it isn't the full footage... So that makes no sense...

Like you, I lean towards she wanted a break from something but I do that because it is the best case scenario, it means they are alive.

The text messages are unusual in such case, can't think of another like this with such. I'm not talking like LISK, I mean a case like this. My instinct says they area bogus but I'd hate to be wrong and find they came from a perp who has her phone.

IS this just some random perp? I don't know, I don't lean there. She is seen alive and fine after leaving the friend. She gassed up. But CArlee bought snacks not knowing she would be abducted... (tongue in cheek)...

I am NOT saying this is the deal here for this girl, I pray she is okay, I have NO IDEA in this one. I am though showing what people like Carlee do to thoughts when they pull a fake abduction, rape, anything, it makes one doubt the next one/other ones.

And I am worried about this young woman and her family. I do not truly have any reason to lean one way or another in this one yet.

we don't know enough either per the norm. Did she have some nasty ex bf causing trouble? What was going on in her life? Etc.

Bottom line is I pray she is alive and okay. I only have the most minor of leans in any direction. The longer it goes though that is disappearing as well and it is only SLIGHT.

 

[GrandmaBear]

The only thing that doesn't fit with that is...why fill up your car with gas only to abandon it?
Could have been done to intentionally mislead, I suppose. But still strange.

Yeah that one bothers me too but do we know if she filled? Even if she didn't though it makes no sense. Either she was ensuing this was seen on cam or she was abducted. IN my way of thinking anyhow.

 

[Guess Who]

The only thing that doesn't fit with that is...why fill up your car with gas only to abandon it?
Could have been done to intentionally mislead, I suppose. But still strange.

Unless...IF this is self harm, her first intention might have been carbon monoxide poisoning.

I am not saying anything like that happened. Just an explanation of how it could be possible.

I'm wondering what will come from info from her vehicle.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Human remains found in wooded area of Mesquite during search for missing Dallas ISD teacher's assistant

Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga's family's spokesperson says they were notified Thursday about the search, but that they have not received confirmation on the identification of the remains.

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Human remains found in wooded area of Mesquite during search for missing Dallas ISD teacher's assistant​

During a search for a missing Dallas ISD teacher's assistant Thursday, Seagoville police discovered human remains in a wooded area of Mesquite.

At 5:53 p.m. Oct. 12, Mesquite police were sent to the area near Interstate 20 and Lawson Road to investigate remains found by officers with the Seagoville Police Department during a search for Jennifer Mendez Olascoaga, who went missing two weeks ago.

Her family's spokesperson says they were notified Thursday about the search, but that they have not received confirmation on the identification of the remains.

Mesquite police said this remains an ongoing investigation and that more information will be released as it becomes available.