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Post by HeadMarshal on May 22, 2014 9:24:54 GMT -5
 (Above: Cayedito, circa 1986. Photo Credit: Charley Project) Missing Child/Person Profile as of September 4th, 2014 (Based on Charley Project website): Missing Since: April 6, 1986 from Gallup, New Mexico Classification: Non-Family Abduction Date of Birth: December 25, 1976 Height and Weight (at time of disappearance): 4'7, 55 lbs Distinguishing Characteristics: Biracial (Caucasian/Native American) female. Black hair, brown eyes. Anthonette has dark-colored moles on her right cheek, nose, back and one of her ankles. She has scars on one of her knees and on her lip. Her ears are pierced. Some agencies spell her name "Antoinette." Anthonette is of Navajo and Italian descent. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A knee-length pink nightgown. TIPS: Anyone having information should call 1-800-THE-LOST the Gallup Police Department (New Mexico) at 505-863-9365
Authorities in Gallup, New Mexico have been searching for Anthonette Cayedito for nearly 30 years. The case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries, however I doubt it was aired on AMW. On Apr 6, 1986, Penny Cayedito arrived home after leaving her three young daughters with a babysitter. She allowed them to stay up to 3AM, and then according to her, Anthonette slept with her. According to Anthonette's sister, sometime between 3-7AM, a man claiming to be their "Uncle Joe" knocked on the door. Anthonette opened the door and her sister said he and another man abducted her and forced her into a brown van. In the years after her disappearance, there were some leads, the most noteable are as follows. - A Navajo medicine woman told Penny that Anthonette was alive and was being held against her will, and had been abducted by someone she knew. - A girl identifying herself as Anthonette called the Gallup Police Dispatch line from Albuquerque, she screamed when another voice could be heard on the phone-line. Penny identified the girl as her daughter but said she didn't know the other voice. - A girl at a diner in Carson City, Nevada, around the age Anthonette would have been four years after her disappearance tried to get a waitress's attention and left a note pleading for help, according to the waitress. Several years after Anthonette's disappearance, the retired Gallup detective Marty Esquivel said he had his doubts regarding what supposedly happened to Anthonette. He believed that Penny knew who took Anthonette because she failed a polygraph administered by the FBI. There were also rumors, that Penny and Anthonette's biological father, Larry Estrada were involved in drugs. A neighbour said that it wasn't unusual for Penny to have visitors throughout the night. Penny died in 1999, before the FBI had a chance to question her. -- Thoughts? I have issues with the original version of events regarding Anthonette's disappearance. If she was sleeping with her mother, why would she answer the door in the middle of the night and not her mother? Some believe that the sister was coerced into telling the story about the "Uncle Joe", the lead never even went anywhere. Which then brings the suspicion towards Penny, even though she's dead and can't defend herself, the retired detective believes she knew who took Anthonette. If so, then was it a drug debt (if the drug dealing rumors were true). From what I've read, Penny was seen driving a new car a week after Anthonette's disappearance, which is also extremely suspicious. I feel that Anthonette was probably kept alive after she disappeared for a period of time, but she may be dead by now, considering she's been missing for nearly 30 years. I'm also under the belief that none of the leads I mentioned were accurate but I felt I needed to mention them since they were part of her case story. www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=114554508586975 (Gallup news article) www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/cayedito_anthonette.htmlAdmin Note: If you have any news-related updated information on this case, please contact us here: amwfans.com/thread/1662/website-contact-form |
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Post by Scumhunter on May 26, 2014 12:33:11 GMT -5
I pretty much agree with your theories. Also, I know in the past, I've made a point of mentioning deceased suspects in missing person or children cases aren't alive to defend themselves, but it doesn't mean they're innocent. While not wanting to trash a dead person, a lot of them raised suspicion in their behavior and/or inconsistencies while still alive. They may be innocent, but they behaved outside the norm.
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Post by King Of Clubs on Mar 14, 2015 9:32:22 GMT -5
I think that IF the sighting of Cayedito in Carson City was truly her, then there is a decent chance she is still alive, if it wasn't, then that worries me. I sure hope she is okay. Also, I am pretty sure that whether her Mother knew more about her abduction or not, The abductor(s) were known to Anthonette in some way, shape or form. I really think that this is a solvable case if it is really dug deep again and re-analyzed. I still hold out hope that we will find the truth one day.  |
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Post by TheWebDetective on Jun 21, 2015 13:39:18 GMT -5
I'm also suspicious of Penny. If her involvement in drugs are true and the neighbor is correct, Penny may have sold Anthonette for drugs. It's like that it never happened, I just looked at an unsolved case AMW profiled in the late 1990s where a mother sold her daughter for drugs.
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Post by Scumhunter on May 24, 2017 23:25:35 GMT -5
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Post by Scumhunter on Dec 11, 2017 4:36:13 GMT -5
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Post by catchumall on Dec 20, 2017 14:58:13 GMT -5
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Post by TheWebDetective on Feb 3, 2019 1:52:46 GMT -5
After the Dark Matters profile, I've started to reassess my suspicions of Penny. Which leads me to wonder who took her and why. The abduction, the call and the diner siting just don't add up and all debatable.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 15, 2019 14:34:03 GMT -5
Here's a podcast detailing the case.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Nov 16, 2019 12:02:26 GMT -5
It looks like NCMEC updated it's age progression of Cayedito to what she might look like in her 40s. |
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Post by Scumhunter on Nov 16, 2019 19:37:02 GMT -5
It looks like NCMEC updated it's age progression of Cayedito to what she might look like in her 40s. Thank you, amazingly it looks like they just automatically updated the jpg url for the original photo to reflect the change since my previous post looks just like the new photo. I appreciate the reminder though as I wouldn't have known the photo updated itself on its' own and I'll edit my reply. |
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Post by TheWebDetective on Nov 27, 2019 3:21:41 GMT -5
In any case, here's a collage of the various age progressions of Cayedito. Here's also an article on the case. Based on this article and the podcast I posted here earlier, I truly think that the factor of her father should be looked at further. As much as people, myself included give Penny grief over what she truly know about what happened to Anthonette (and she wasn't the model mother, even in 80s standards), the father from what we know is incredibly shady. crimeblogger1983.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/where-is-anthonette-christine-cayedito/ ![]() |
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Post by тσρтєиhυитєя on Mar 29, 2020 12:30:29 GMT -5
There was a phone call that came into the Gallup Police Department the year after she went missing in 1987 which was shown in the 1992 Unsolved Mysteries episode, as well as mentioning that in 1991 she was sighted in Carson City, Nevada.
This is what I’ll say, I think Anthonette was abducted by 2 individuals more likely males and were passed around amongst the kidnappers and their possible “associates”. If she’s still alive I think she’s still in the southwestern United States with individuals who are slightly older than her, or Anthonette herself suffered from amnesia during her captivity and if alive right now may not still be captive, but doesn’t know who she is or where she came from.
Sadly the other possible theory is that being the American Southwest, there’s a lot of remote areas and there is a possibility that her remains are out there but haven’t been discovered yet since there are plenty of remote areas as the towns and cities are placed further apart than say here in the Mid Atlantic & Northeastern states.
Honestly revisiting this case again really scared the crap out of me especially during the overnight hours, it’s one of the worst of the worst missing persons case because the victim is under the age of 10, and it’s in a part of the country that less dense in population.
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Post by Scumhunter on Mar 29, 2020 23:44:47 GMT -5
Unfortunately, I don't think Anthonette is alive anymore and it is a matter of finding out what happened to her. I hate to cast suspicion on one person let alone a dead person and I don't like whenever everyone gangs up and points the finger at one person, but I feel similar to the Kyron Horman case (which I hope people understand my rant was about how some people on the internet seem to only care about Kyron as opposed to caring about all missing children), this is one case where there are too many inconsistencies in the person who everyone is pointing the fingers at's story, and they sort of invited it by not being consistent.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Apr 2, 2020 12:57:58 GMT -5
I will say I originally had my suspicions and doubts on Penny and in some ways still do. But upon further research, more should be looked at into Anthonette's father's involvement in the case. Unfortunately, both we don't know close to nothing about Larry and Wendy passed away before she can say anything. It doesn't help that things such as the phone call, the supposed diner spotting and Wendy's late confession might obscure further proper investigation and actual clues to solve the case.
If Anthonette's father's under dealings and it's connection to Anthonette's kidnapping is to be believed, then the possible scenario is Anthonette's father made one too many enemies which prompted them to take Anthonette. But that theory has its own holes since why Anthonette and was she even close to her father for his enemies to know her, let alone take her. Assuming Wendy did not sell her daughter off as it is often believed by some, she might have became acquainted with people who were more despicable then they led on and they took Anthonette.
The only other possibilities are 1) Anthonette died that night, either by the hands of Wendy or someone or something else, and someone hid the body and are keeping quiet to this day. 2) Human traffickers, serial abductors, or serial killers were at the area that night trying to find anyone unsuspecting enough to be taken and Anthonette was that unlucky someone. 3) She somehow wondered off for whatever reason only for who knows what was her fate after. Is there any info on the person who babysat Anthonette and her sisters that night and was that person cleared?
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