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Lucero Sarabia Reeves
San Antonio, Texas

Lucero Sarabia Reeves, affectionately called 'Princess' by her family, is the mother of two young boys and was eight months pregnant when she vanished after leaving a Thanksgiving gathering in San Antonio, TX, on Nov. 26, 2004.

At the time, Lucero had just separated from her husband and moved in with her mother, Juanita Trevino, and sister, Amanda, along with her two sons.

According to her sister, Lucero spent the day bonding with her family, excited to cook Thanksgiving dinner for them for the first time. After dinner, Amanda, then 16, invited Lucero to a gathering at her boyfriend's place. Lucero dropped her mother off at work and headed to the party. After picking her mother up at 10 p.m., Lucero wanted to return to the party and convinced Juanita to drop her off. At around 1:30 a.m., the mother and daughter had their final conversation via phone, with Lucero telling Juanita that she would get a ride home from an acquaintance at the party. Lucero never returned.

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The acquaintance is a man by the name of Richard Chabes. According to Lucero's family, Chabes, then 29, said he stopped at his apartment and that Lucero decided to walk home from there. ​

After dozens of calls to her daughter's phone went unanswered, Juanita contacted the San Antonio Police but was told they had to wait 48 hours before the police could initiate a search. Desperate for answers, the family began their own search. Juanita went to the apartment to confront Chabes, but he told her that Lucero was upset about an argument she had with another woman at the party and opted to walk home. ​

​Two days after Lucero disappeared, Chabes abruptly moved out. Investigators searched the apartment and found blood on the wall and carpet. However, the evidence was not enough to arrest Chabes because the blood could've been from an injury Lucero sustained during an altercation at the party, according to local media reports.

It wasn't until a year later that investigators located Chabes in Indiana, where he was serving a sentence for an unrelated offense. San Antonio Police questioned Chabes about Lucero's disappearance. He allegedly claimed that a woman at the party hit Lucero, causing her nose to bleed. However, it's not clear why Chabes stopped at his apartment instead of driving Lucero home, or how long she was there before allegedly walking home.

Anyone with information about the disappearance of Lucero Sarabia Reeves should call the SAPD's Missing Persons Unit at 210-207-7660 or CRIME STOPPERS at 210-224-STOP.

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