It’s been more than three days with no trace of 22-year-old Alma Del Real, who was last seen at a South Bend club early Sunday morning.
Police say she was dropped off by a friend at her home on Ewing Ave. around 3:30 a.m., after leaving Studio Rumba 305 in South Bend.
“That’s it. She vanished after that,” said Capt. Phil Trent of the South Bend Police Dept. “She hasn’t contacted anybody, hasn’t been on social media, hasn’t been sighted.”
The story of the disappearance of the Clay High School graduate has generated a buzz on social media, but Del Real’s loved ones are asking that the information make its way to police.
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“What’s evolved is we’re hearing from close friends who are having discussions via social media,” Trent said. “In some of those discussion there’s some concrete facts that are being pushed out there that we weren’t aware of.”
Trent is asking that those with credible information share it first with police in order to help locate Del Real.
“That has been a problem apparently,” said Del Real’s aunt, Susana Laguna. “People are talking to each other but not coming forward.”
According to her family, Del Real works as a cashier at Wells Fargo and works side jobs as a make-up artist. When she did not report for work Monday morning, they knew something was wrong.
“She’s the type of person that would not miss work unless she was very ill,” Laguna said. “She is not the type of person that would just run away or go away without telling the family.”
Police attempted to locate Del Real’s phone through cell towers. They received some information from those pings but the phone has been dead or turned off since later in the day on Sunday.
Del Real’s family says that is also a red flag, because she tends to constantly be checking in through texts, calls or social media.
“She was connected most of the time,” Laguna said. “When she was not working she was connected so we knew where she was. We knew what she was doing.”
Those with information are asked to call the South Bend Police Department at 574-235-9201. Anyone who believes they have spotted Del Real is asked to call 9-11.
Her friends and family are praying for Del Real’s safe return, but Laguna said she fears the worst.
“We’re hoping that she’s alive and that she will come home and we are very scared that the opposite is true — that she’s dead somewhere and we don’t know where,” Laguna told NewsCenter16.
At the time she was missing, Del Real was wearing light blue, skinny, ripped, high-waisted pants, a black crop top, and a tan, leather jacket.
She is 5’5, 137 lbs., has black hair and brown eyes.
