San Diego County Sheriff's Department: Crime Stoppers: Have You Seen Elena Roy?

Press release from San Diego County Sheriff's Department:

12/22/2021 2:00 PM

San Diego County Crime Stoppers and investigators from the Sheriff’s Homicide Unit continue to ask for the public’s help in locating 84-year-old Elena Carlotta Roy.

On the afternoon of November 3, 2021, Elena reportedly walked away from her home in the 900 block of Woodcreek Drive in Fallbrook.  She suffers from dementia and was previously found after wandering away from her home in 2020. 

Despite multiple expansive searches by deputies, volunteers with the Sheriff’s Search and Rescue (SAR) Unit and community members, Elena’s whereabouts are still unknown.  Investigators continue to ask the Fallbrook community to assist in the ongoing search by checking their private property.

Click on the above photo to watch surveillance video of Elena Roy from a Fallbrook grocery store taken on November 2, the day before she went missing.  It's believed she was wearing the same clothes as in the video.  You can also watch the video by clicking here. 

Elena is a White female, standing 5’ 4” tall, weighs 115 pounds, with brownish gray hair and brown eyes.  She was last seen wearing a tan beanie, a multicolored gray and white short sleeved shirt, black pants and blue and brown shoes.  She had a brown purse and was wearing brown and tan framed glasses.

Per Elena’s family, she has gone by the names of Elena Charlotta Lorea and Elena Charlotte Roy.

Elena’s family is offering a $9,000 reward in addition to Crime Stoppers’ $1,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to Elena’s whereabouts. 

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Elena Carlotta Roy is asked to call the San Diego Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Unit at (858) 285-6286 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-8477.  Visit the Crime Stoppers website at www.sdcrimestoppers.org for more information on how to send anonymous web and mobile app tips.

To download a copy of the Crime Stoppers missing person flyer, click here.

Media inquiries about this case can be directed to Lieutenant Thomas Seiver at (858) 285-6326 or email at Thomas.Seiver@sdsheriff.org.

Media inquiries about Crime Stoppers can be directed to Officer Mark Herring at (619) 531-1500 or email at msherring@pd.sandiego.gov or Deputy Marcial Lopez at (619) 531-1547 or email at marcial.lopez@sdsheriff.org.

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