Isabel Mercedes Celis Timeline: Search For Missing Arizona 6-Year-Old

Isabel Mercedes Celis' parents say she went missing sometime during the early morning of April 21.

Police in Arizona are searching for Isabel Mercedes Celis, who went missing from her parents' Tuscon home sometime in the early morning of April 21. Police have not ruled out homicide or kidnapping in the case and say that detectives found a window to the girl's bedroom was open with the screen pushed aside. Authorities and community members are now scouring the area in search of clues to bring the 6-year-old girl home.

Here is a timeline of the events surrounding the Celis disappearance, beginning with what her parents say was the last time they say their daughter:

Friday, April 20, 11:00 p.m. -- Isabel's parents put her to bed.

Saturday, April 21, 7:30 a.m. -- Isabel's mother, a nurse, leaves for work. It remains unclear if Isabel's mother checked on her before leaving the house.

8:00 a.m. -- Isabel's father goes to wake up his daughter and notices that the girl is missing from her bedroom.

8:14 a.m. -- Isabel's father calls the police.

Monday, April 23 -- Investigators deploy two FBI dogs -- one trained to find human remains and one trained for search and rescue -- in a survey of the family's home. They say that one dog may have found evidence that required a follow-up, but would not say what was found.

On this day, Isabel's family also releases a statement thanking the community for its support and efforts in the ongoing search for Isabel. "We love Isabel and will never give up finding her," they say.

Isabel is just under 4-feet-tall, weighs approximately 44 pounds and has brown hair and hazel eyes. Anyone with any information about her disappearance or whereabouts is urged to call 520-88-CRIME.

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Comments

[SLuG1972]

09:48 AM on 06/19/2012

my man wakes our 11 yr old up for fishing sometimes...nothing unusual for us....................but for the grace of god, go i...........im grateful everyday my family is safe from within and without...they can be mad at me later for being too watchful ..After they grow up safe...but how horrible when something like this Does happen , esp. from within the family, by The very person responsible for their protection..someone has done something, i do hope it Wasnt the dad and that they Do eventually find the little girl

[viciousvirago]

05:54 PM on 06/08/2012

When my son was little, I watched him like a hawk. All it takes is a couple of seconds in the dept. store or grocery store and your child is gone. Some people actually criticized me for it, but my son was safe.

I constantly see toddlers and older running up and down the grocery store aisles looking for mommy. Why doesn't mommy watch her own child? And don't tell me it's too hard to shop and watch your child. I did it and it worked.

[asmith6510]

08:12 AM on 05/14/2012

Why didn't the father call the mother first???

[quitzia123]

12:17 PM on 05/01/2012

did they find Isabel celis

[quitzia123]

12:15 PM on 05/01/2012

did the find Isabel celis in the trash can

[justanother mom]

06:12 AM on 05/01/2012

Waking kids on Saturay is not unusual for normal people. First, I was the only parent home on weekends and had things to do when my kides were small. Second, THEY had things to do. Last, if they slept in Saturday morning, they would want to stay up too late Saturday night and disrupt their normal sleep patterns. Not until they were teens did I "let" them sleep in, but then vacuuming ususally gets them moving.

[hmsyticrain2]

10:30 PM on 04/30/2012

Pray they find this precious little girl.Btw, Arizona is the kidnapping capital of the US,I wondered if the police knew something about the parents that may have caused rthem to scale back rescue efforts.This should be all over fox,cnn,msnbc but yet this is the first time i've heard this story.

[w7dok]

09:54 PM on 04/30/2012

Things getting bad. When I had kids - you couldn't GIVE 'em away ! !
Hope she's OK ~~

[rav1267]

02:07 PM on 04/30/2012

Hoping she is alive and well.

[geannib]

07:41 PM on 04/25/2012

it's a saturday....why would the father go wake her up?...something seems fishy .....

[Shanah Mahrie Blair]

08:10 PM on 04/25/2012

I had heard she had a soccer game that morning. but i haven't heard anything about it since the first day.

[KarenLCDW]

09:22 PM on 04/30/2012

She had a soccer game the night before, on Friday night. It was reported they got home around 11 PM

[billeir1]

07:48 PM on 04/30/2012

geannib...absolutely suspicious isn't it...why would any father wake his daughter up at 8am..my God, especially on a Saturday? Let me count the reasons...forget it I don't have all day. Yes, I realize everyone is a suspect until they are ruled out. If they are the loving parents they appear to be then I cannot imagine the anxiety and suffering that they and the rest of their family are going thru. It's every good parents nightmare.

[deborahehill]

05:54 AM on 05/01/2012

When I was six, sleeping past the crack of dawn when there were cartoons to be watched was unheard of.