A family’s Christmas Eve took a heartbreaking turn when 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos disappeared from her home in Bexar County, Texas, on December 24, 2025. Surveillance footage caught her last around 6:58 a.m., still in her pajamas, poking around near her car. She didn’t take her phone just her keys and maybe her ID and hasn’t been seen since. Authorities jumped on it fast, issuing a CLEAR Alert to flag her as potentially in danger, and now the search is dragging into its fourth day with zero solid clues.
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Camila’s a Hispanic woman, about 5’4″ tall and 110 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. She just graduated high school with honors this year and is super religious and dependable, according to her friends and family.
“She’s always so sweet and on top of things checks in with everyone, keeps her phone charged,”
Some pals told KSAT. This vanishing act is totally unlike her.
She lives with her mom, Rosario Olmos, in the 11000 block of Caspian Spring on the northwest side. Camila liked her early morning walks around the neighborhood, and nothing seemed off beforehand no fights, no signs of trouble. She had strong ties with her family, boyfriend, and buddies, and she’d even gotten baptized recently, which really showed how faith-centered her life was. The whole thing just feels so out of left field.
That morning, Rosario noticed Camila slip out of bed and figured it was just another walk. After about an hour and a half, though, worry set in. She checked outside, saw the car still there, and found Camila’s phone off in the bedroom. The home camera showed her in a black North Face hoodie with baby blue details, matching pajama pants, and white shoes, messing with something by the vehicle then poof, gone.
The family immediately reached out to her boyfriend and friends, but nobody had a clue.
“This isn’t like her at all,”
One friend said to KSAT. They called the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office that same day, and the investigation kicked off right away into her weird on-foot departure.
The sheriff’s team got a CLEAR Alert going through the Texas Department of Public Safety it’s for missing adults who might be at risk. Texas uses these for over 100 cases a year, and it’s calling on folks to share any tips at (210) 335-6000 or [email protected]. They’ve urged neighbors to comb through their own security cams from that morning.
So far, no signs of foul play, but the alert stresses she could be in trouble. The area around Caspian Spring and Mustang Bay has seen some human trafficking reports over 1,000 tips in Texas alone in 2024 from the National Human Trafficking Hotline but nothing ties directly to this case yet.
More than 100 volunteers, including family who drove 17 hours to help, fanned out over a three-mile area on Christmas Day. “We searched all holiday long and came up empty,” her brother Carlos Mendoza said. Her dad, Alfonso Mendoza, put out a plea:
“Please come home. Daddy’s missing you.”
Rosario’s leaning hard on her faith, praying to God, angels, and the Virgin Mary for answers.
Aunt Nancy Olmos has been blasting it on social media, and groups like The AWARE Foundation are spreading the word with posts racking up thousands of views. The community’s stepping up big time, sharing alerts and keeping the momentum going.
As of today, December 27, 2025, there’s still no confirmed sightings, and the hunt continues. Bexar County deals with around 1,500 missing persons reports each year, and most wrap up quick, but cases like Camila’s young adults make up about 10% of the FBI’s national listings. The holiday timing makes it sting even more, but the way everyone’s rallying shows that hope and grit in tough spots like this.
