Police have discovered two bodies in the search for Savanah Nicole Soto, the pregnant 18-year-old who went missing in Texas the weekend she was set to give birth.
Two people were found dead in a vehicle in San Antonio, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus confirmed Tuesday night, adding that detectives are investigating the case as a possible murder but that, “we don’t know for sure.”
McManus said they believed the individuals found in the car Tuesday were Soto and her 22-year-old boyfriend, Matthew Guerra, but held off on an official confirmation pending a medical examiner’s report. McManus described it as a “very complex, perplexing crime scene.”
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“We believe that it is the missing woman and her boyfriend but we can’t confirm that right now officially until the medical examiner takes a look at the bodies,” McManus said.
The bodies were found inside a vehicle that matched the description of Guerra’s car, McManus said. Family members phoned the police after they were tipped off about the car’s whereabouts. The identity of the tipster is unknown.
McManus said police believed the car had been parked there for around three or four days. He gave no information as to the condition of Soto’s baby.
“I’m not going to say anything officially about whether the person in the vehicle was pregnant or is pregnant, I can’t say that officially, we have to wait for medical examiner,” McManus said, adding that “we do believe that the two individuals were the female who was missing and her boyfriend.”
Soto was last seen Friday in Leon Valley, Texas and was believed to have passed her delivery date, police said earlier in a press release.
Her disappearance “caused significant concern among her family members after missing an essential medical appointment,” police said.
Soto’s mother Gloria Cordova said in a Facebook post that the boyfriend was “no good.”
The Texas Department of Public Safety issued a CLEAR alert late Christmas night that characterized Soto as being “in imminent danger.”
“This is not like her,” Cordova told KSAT on Monday. “She was so excited to have this baby. The house was already baby-ready.”
“When I called her all morning she wasn’t answering, was going straight to voicemail,” she continued. “We went to the hospital anyways. She was a no-show, and that’s when I called the cops”
