The FBI said yesterday they could not assist a family who has been seeking help in finding answers to the mysterious disappearance of Rosaline Santos Camacho in 1998.<\/p>\n
FBI special agent Tom Simon told Saipan Tribune yesterday that they want to remain focused in their investigation and search for missing sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s our sole purpose for being here right now\u2014to get these girls home safely,\u201d said Simon, the FBI Honolulu\u2019s media relations coordinator.<\/p>\n
Rosaline was 33 when she was reported missing on Aug. 23, 1998, on Saipan. Her husband, Francisco San Nicolas Camacho, was then a police detective and is now retired.<\/p>\n
Antonio and Albert Santos, brothers of Rosaline, told Saipan Tribune on Thursday that the family is hoping that the FBI will also step into the investigation of her disappearance. The family strongly believes there was a cover up in the investigation on Rosaline\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n
The FBI currently has 20 FBI special agents and support staff on Saipan, including members of the FBI Child Abduction Response Deployment Team, to join the search for 10-year-old Faloma Luhk and her sister, 9-year-old Maleina, who have been missing since May 25.<\/p>\n
When asked for comment about the Santos family\u2019s appeal to the FBI, Simon said the bureau \u201cis not a missing persons agency, as the local police usually handle that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simon said the FBI investigates, among other things, child abduction at the request of local law enforcement seeking help.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat said, our condolences go out to the family for everything that they\u2019ve been through. Our heart goes out to the family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to the Santos brothers, Rosaline had a fight with her husband, that\u2019s why she left their house and stayed with her sister in Koblerville for a week.<\/p>\n
On a Saturday night in August 1998, Rosaline borrowed the Toyota Camry of her sister and left the house in Koblerville.<\/p>\n
Rosaline never returned home. The following morning between 8am and 9am, the car was found parked at the back of the Coral Ocean Point golf course.<\/p>\n
Antonio Santos said that Rosaline\u2019s slippers were found at the cliff line, about 50 feet away from the car.<\/p>\n
Albert Santos said they were told that there were signs of struggle in the car, but when the family went to the scene, police did not allow them to see the vehicle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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