Yesenia Ortiz Acosta

Yesenia Ortiz Acosta (born 1975) is a Puerto Rican woman who became famous across the island after her disappearance, which occurred in Guayama, Puerto Rico, early in 1999, leading to one of the widest media searches in Puerto Rico during the 1990s.

Ortiz Acosta met a policeman named Eddie Samir Rodriguez when she was a teenager. Eventually, the two of them got married and had children.

One morning, Ortiz Acosta was parked in front of Guayama's city hall, when she was confronted by two men, who carjacked her. Ortiz Acosta has never been seen since. The day after her carjack, major media venues such as El Vocero, El Nuevo Dia and most of the television stations in Puerto Rico had picked up on her case, beginning a campaign that would take many months to try to help find her, but that eventually would fade out to other news.

Eddie Samir Rodriguez was arrested as a prime suspect in the case, and he later told police that he was the intellectual killer of his wife. He said that her corpse had been thrown somewhere in the Caribbean Sea, and police began looking for it immediately. Samir Rodriguez remains jailed, but without her body being found, there is really not much evidence with which to prosecute him.

Meanwhile, many astrologers, ghost talkers and the like have claimed that "Yesenia" has spoken to them through their minds. It could be argued that most of these people have used her name to claim fame, since none of their leads have taken police to where Yesenia is.

On April of 2005, Televicentro Puerto Rico reminded the general public about her disappearance, by having a special edition of Zumbate!, a hit candid camera television show, dedicated to her. A ghost speaker took the show's hosts to a place where "Yesenia" supposedly revealed her that she was buried at, but nothing was found.

The same month, Televicentro Puerto Rico released the made for tv film, "Paso en Branderi", which documented the case. "Branderi" is the name of the barrio where Ortiz Acosta and Samir Rodriguez shared a home.

External links

* [http://www.courierpostonline.com/nuestra/nc033005c.htm courierpostonline.com talk about Ortiz Acosta, in Spanish]

Branderi is not the place where Yesenia and Eddie shared a home. Branderi was the place in which Yesenia was seen for the last time. She was not parked in front of Guayama City Hall, the Guayama City Hall is in the middle of the town.

Branderi was the place in where Yesenia was confronted by two men who carjacked her.