CA ZYANYA VALORA: Missing from Ojai, CA - 24 June 2024 - Age 21

Ojai family desperately search for missing daughter with autism

They missing woman's parents said Zyana Valora climbed out of her bedroom window and disappeared.

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Ojai family desperately search for missing daughter with autism​

An Ojai family needs help finding their daughter who has autism after the 21-year-old disappeared more than three weeks ago.

"I am thinking about her every day, every night, every minute," father Gabriel Valora said. "I won't stop looking for you."

It has been just over three weeks since Zyanya Valora climbed out of her bedroom window and disappeared from her family.

"After seven days of looking for her, they stopped operations," mother Damaris Dac said. "We are now on the third week, and we don't have any clue of where she is at."

Her parents said that Zyanya's cell phone was last pinged at a nearby Airbnb on the morning of her disappearance. She is about five feet tall, 90 pounds, with black shoulder-length hair, brown eyes and a mole underneath her nose.

The last time her parents saw Zyanya, she wore a white tank top and black boxer-style shorts. Her parents think she is barefoot because all the shoes she owns are still in her closet.

"I wanted to let her know we are still looking for her," her father said.

While devastated, Gabriel continues sending texts to his daughter, hoping she will respond.

"Yesterday, I told her I was looking for her, for hours. Near the beach, near the railroad tracks," he said.

Their family, friends, and the community at large have all banded together to help the parents by putting up posters, hosting fundraisers, and doing group searches.

"Somebody knows something and we just follow that lead," Dac said. "That is the hope every day that we find something that can lead us to her."

Zyanya's parents said she is verbal but may not speak. They ask anyone who sees her to keep her engaged long enough to call for help.

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$10,000 reward offered for return of Zyanya Valora, missing from Mira Monte

On Friday, July 12 — Day 18 of Zyanya Valora’s disappearance from her home in Mira Monte — her family organized a massive community search and is offering a $10,000

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$10,000 reward offered for return of Zyanya Valora, missing from Mira Monte​

On Friday, July 12 — Day 18 of Zyanya Valora’s disappearance from her home in Mira Monte — her family organized a massive community search and is offering a $10,000 reward “for the successful location and physical recovery of Zyanya.”

If anyone sees Zyanya or has any information about her, they are asked to call 9-1-1.

The flyer the family is handing out describes Zyanya as Hispanic, 5 feet tall, 90 pounds, with black, shoulder-length hair, brown eyes, a mole underneath her left nostril. She also has a mole on her forehead and a large mole on her right arm. She was last seen by her family on June 24, wearing a white tank top and black boxer-style shorts.

Some 60 people gathered July 12 along the bicycle path outside the Country Village Mobile Home Park in the 11000 block of North Ventura Avenue to help Zyanya’s parents, Damaris and Gabriel, find their 21-year-old autistic daughter. Zyanya’s last known contact was a ping from her phone to her computer on June 25 at 2:42 a.m. at the corner of Barbara and Oakcrest streets, two blocks from her home at the mobile home park.

Her parents last saw her at 8 p.m. the day before.


Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, with its Search and Rescue team, searched extensively from June 25 to 30 for the at-risk 21-year-old woman, who has been diagnosed with autism, but scaled back their search efforts significantly on June 30.

Family member Veronica Lujano said she wishes law enforcement could send out an Amber Alert about Zyanya, to spread the news about her missing beyond Ventura County. Even though the criteria for an Amber Alert is for children under age 18, she said that Zyanya’s at-risk status, with her autism and developmental age about 12 or 13, should be considered.

She said sheriff’s detectives are investigating Zyanya’s disappearance, but have little to go on. A screen from Zyanya’s bedroom window was found removed the day she went missing. Damaris said it is likely Zyanya left the house via the window, instead of the door, so the family dog would not alert the family to her leaving.

Zyanya was reported missing once before in 2020, when she was 17, leaving home at about 1 a.m., carrying a Bible. Back then, she was found in a nearby Baptist church within a few hours.

 

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Two Ojai women create a ‘Find Zyanya Valora’ FB page

When Robin Newberger and Barbara Amador learned that Zyanya Valora, 21, of Mira Monte was reported missing June 25, they each knew they had to do something to find her.

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Two Ojai women create a ‘Find Zyanya Valora’ FB page​

When Robin Newberger and Barbara Amador learned that Zyanya Valora, 21, of Mira Monte was reported missing June 25, they each knew they had to do something to find her. Then, by chance, the women metwhen Zyanya’s mother, Damaris, organized a community search outside Country Village Mobile Home Park in the 11000 block of North Ventura Avenue on July 12.

The Valora family of Mira Monte has raised $10,000 to offer as a reward “for the successful location and physical recovery” of Zyanya. If anyone sees Zyanya or has any information about her, they are asked to call 9-1-1.

When Newberger and Amador started talking, they realized they could use their computer skills and contacts to create a Facebook page called “Find Zyanya Valora,” with photographs of Zyanya, who is autistic and has the developmental abilities of a 12- or 13-year-old. “We started collaborating and work well together,” Newberger said. They are posting information about the search for Zyanya in English and Spanish, with the help of Google Translate.

Their goal was to create a Facebook page that contains factual, up-to-date and credible information about the search for Zyanya.

As of July 25, they have 222 followers on their Facebook page and hope for many more. “We are trying to reach a broader audience, to move the search from local to national,” Amador said.

The women have teamed up with Zyanya’s mother, Damaris, and are not giving up. “Doing nothing yields nothing,” Newberger said, adding of their “Find Zyanya Valora” Facebook page, “This is something.”

Newberger and Amador want everyone to be talking about Zyanya and want to help her mother. “Damaris is everywhere all at once,” Newberger said, adding that they want to help lighten her load.

“I really appreciate it,” Damaris said, meeting with Newberger and Newberger’s husband, David Mulligan, and Amador, on the morning of July 25 at the Ojai Valley News office.

“As a parent, I can only begin to imagine what it would be like” to have your child missing, Newberger said. She said she wakes up in the middle of the night wondering where Zyanya might be. “She’s somewhere.”

Amador said that a few days ago, she noticed the exterior door to her garage was open, a bicycle in front of the door had been moved, and her car door was open. Nothing was taken, so she wondered if Zyanya might have sought shelter there. Amador then left a “little bag” with food, water and Oreos in the garage. Zyanya loves Oreos. But, the next day, “the little lunch stayed there,” Amador said.

Zyanya’s last known contact was a ping from her phone to her computer on June 25 at 2:42 a.m. in the area of Barbara and Oakcrest streets, two blocks from her home at the mobile home park.


Sheriff’s detectives are investigating Zyanya’s disappearance, but have little to go on. A screen from Zyanya’s bedroom window was found removed the day she went missing. Damaris said it is likely Zyanya left the house via the window, instead of the door, so the family dog would not alert the family to her leaving.

Zyanya was reported missing once before in 2020, when she was 17, leaving home at about 1 a.m., carrying a Bible. Back then, she was found in a nearby Baptist church within a few hours.

 

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Ventura County Sheriff Urgently Needs Your Help Locating Zyanya Valora, Missing Since June 24, 2024

Ventura County Sheriff Urgently Needs Your Help Locating Zyanya Valora, Missing Since June 24, 2024

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Ventura County Sheriff Urgently Needs Your Help Locating Zyanya Valora, Missing Since June 24, 2024​

Ventura County Sheriff’s Office officials report that they urgently need your help in locating Zyanya Valora, age 21, who
has been missing since June 24, 2024.

Despite extensive efforts, there have been no credible leads to her disappearance. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the Public’s assistance. Zyanya is described as a Hispanic female, 5’0” tall, weighing 90 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

 

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Search for Zyanya Valora continues Aug. 31 with information booths at Ventura mall

The search for Zyanya Valora, 21, of Mira Monte continues with her family and community members setting up booths at several locations at the Pacific View Mall in Ventura on

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Search for Zyanya Valora continues Aug. 31 with information booths at Ventura mall​

The search for Zyanya Valora, 21, of Mira Monte continues with her family and community members setting up booths at several locations at the Pacific View Mall in Ventura on Saturday, Aug. 31, where they are handing out flyers in the hope of gathering leads to find the autistic woman last seen at her Ojai valley home on June 24.

 

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Zyanya’s parents plead for help to find daughter

In an effort to keep attention on the fact that their daughter is still missing, Zyanya Valora’s parents, Damaris and Gabriel Valora, spoke during general public comment at the Sept.

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Zyanya’s parents plead for help to find daughter​

In an effort to keep attention on the fact that their daughter is still missing, Zyanya Valora’s parents, Damaris and Gabriel Valora, spoke during general public comment at the Sept. 24 Ojai City Council meeting. They asked the council to support putting lights and cameras in certain areas, including bus stops and along the Ojai Valley Trail.

Gabriel Valora said: “My daughter is still missing. One of the problems we are facing or the police and the detective (are) facing is the lack of information … in part … because we have no security cameras … especially on the 33 Highway, which again makes the police job very difficult in cases like my daughter’s because they have no clues, no information about it.

“I know this is not going to bring my daughter, but at least it’s going to help the police to keep safe the streets of Ojai.”

Damaris, also speaking during public comment, said: “You know the story. … My daughter has been missing for three months now. … It’s unfortunate that we are not in the Ojai … jurisdiction. We need to come here because it’s the only resource available for us to keep the word out. … Spread the word. If you were in my situation… what would you be doing. I’m not a politician. I don’t have resources. … I don’t know this system.”


Damaris said that a blinking sign on State Route 33 instructs people to get missing-person alerts, but people have to register with vcalerts.com

“Otherwise, you don’t get any notification. … Half the population (in the county) doesn’t know about her. That system doesn’t work at all,” she said.

Gabriel asked the council “to consider the installation of cameras at least at the bus stops, I know this is going to be an expense, which I’ll be willing to contribute … to raise money to do that. I know my daughter is not wandering on the streets. I know she was taken.”