Strange Disappearance And Death Of Janet Casterjon

2021-09-04 13:02:14 Written by Jones Jay

On June 19th, 2015, Janet Castrejon and her parents came to Rustler Park campground around 2:00 PM in their RV to find a picnic area, prep dinner, and set up for their Father’s Day weekend in the mountains.

Other family and friends were to arrive later that evening. Around 6:30 PM, while still light out, Janet and her mom left the RV to deposit the campground fee in the designated self-pay station a short walk along a dirt road downhill and around a curve from where the RV was parked. 

 

Once the fee was deposited, Janet’s mom asked Janet if she wanted to go to the restroom a little further downhill from the fee station. Janet said she wanted to return to the RV instead, so they separated. Her mom walked downhill and Janet started making her way uphill toward the campsite. It wasn’t more than two minutes when Janet’s mom came out of the restroom and couldn’t see her anywhere. She quickly walked to the RV, hoping to find Janet there. 

When her mom asked her dad if Janet had arrived, he said he’d been watching the rearview mirror but never spotted her. They instantly left the RV calling out and searching for Janet along the dirt paths but there was nothing but silence. She simply disappeared. 

 

They’d searched for an hour when Oscar, Janet’s brother, arrived with his wife and two small children only to be greeted with the news of Janet’s disappearance. At that point, Oscar drove to a spot where his cell phone could pick up enough signal to call 911 and report Janet missing. They all continued to search well into the night until Search and Rescue arrived around 2:00 AM. No sign of Janet was found. Several dog teams were brought in to search for Janet’s scent over the next few days but the only scent they found was along the very road she’d walked on with her mom. Every proof points to a kidnapping. Janet is unable of having walked far on her own. She has limited vision in only one eye, she is heavy-set and avoids having to exert herself. 

 

Janet suffered a traumatic brain injury when she was 17 years old from a car accident that left her with short-term memory loss and a mental capacity of a 5-7-year-old child. She has been dependent on her parents since she came out of a month-long coma after the car accident. She had learned to walk and talk again but stayed limited in her learning skill. So she’s been living in a child-like mind ever since, innocent as a child as well. The case was halted until 2018 when the sheriff’s office was given a tip about bone fragments in the area near where Janet went missing.

Cochise County Sheriff’s Office informed the family in September 2019 that they received results from the Tucson Medical Examiner’s Office and they confirmed a match with Janet’s DNA.

No proof of foul play was found,

and there is no new update about this case