Vanished in 1984: The Endangered Missing Case of Justo Celio Cortez

A Quiet Name in a Vast City of the Missing

In the massive sprawl of Los Angeles, thousands of missing and murdered people are reduced to brief database entries, and among them is 32-year-old Justo Celio Cortez. Public records show that Justo was last seen in Los Angeles, California, on October 14, 1984, and he has not been heard from since. His listing appears today on multiple cold-case and missing-person registries, marking him as an “endangered missing” adult and preserving, in only a few lines, the fact that he vanished without explanation more than four decades ago.

The Last Recorded Day: October 14, 1984

The final verifiable detail in Justo’s timeline is stark and simple: October 14, 1984, Los Angeles, California. That is the date and place given for his last known sighting in national and regional missing-person databases derived from NamUs, the U.S. National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. None of the public case summaries elaborate on what he was doing that day, who he was with, or the specific location within the city where he was last seen; they record only that after that date, he was gone. The absence of narrative around that day is itself a defining feature of the case: there is no publicly available account of a dispute, a trip, a vehicle, or any other circumstance that might offer an obvious starting point for investigators or the public....Read More

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