CA ZYANYA VALORA: Missing from Ojai, CA - 24 June 2024 - Age 21 *Found Deceased*

Ojai family desperately search for missing daughter with autism

They missing woman's parents said Zyana Valora climbed out of her bedroom window and disappeared.

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Ojai family desperately search for missing daughter with autism​

An Ojai family needs help finding their daughter who has autism after the 21-year-old disappeared more than three weeks ago.

"I am thinking about her every day, every night, every minute," father Gabriel Valora said. "I won't stop looking for you."

It has been just over three weeks since Zyanya Valora climbed out of her bedroom window and disappeared from her family.

"After seven days of looking for her, they stopped operations," mother Damaris Dac said. "We are now on the third week, and we don't have any clue of where she is at."

Her parents said that Zyanya's cell phone was last pinged at a nearby Airbnb on the morning of her disappearance. She is about five feet tall, 90 pounds, with black shoulder-length hair, brown eyes and a mole underneath her nose.

The last time her parents saw Zyanya, she wore a white tank top and black boxer-style shorts. Her parents think she is barefoot because all the shoes she owns are still in her closet.

"I wanted to let her know we are still looking for her," her father said.

While devastated, Gabriel continues sending texts to his daughter, hoping she will respond.

"Yesterday, I told her I was looking for her, for hours. Near the beach, near the railroad tracks," he said.

Their family, friends, and the community at large have all banded together to help the parents by putting up posters, hosting fundraisers, and doing group searches.

"Somebody knows something and we just follow that lead," Dac said. "That is the hope every day that we find something that can lead us to her."

Zyanya's parents said she is verbal but may not speak. They ask anyone who sees her to keep her engaged long enough to call for help.

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[Kimster]

Not familiar with the Ventura River, but am with others in California. Many of them flow in the winter and get really low, even dry up, in the summer. The article SheWho posted above sums it up.

 

[GrandmaBear]

It sounds like it would have been dry but can't know for sure of course.

I did read or skim the entire Wiki link. It sounded like most of it too had high sides on each side of it as far as land.

 

[Guess Who]

I know CA had some major flooding issues last year, but not sure if this was the area.
She might have died near-ish to it and then when it did rain and water flowed, it could have carried her down further. She very well might have walked the dry river bed and then whatever happened to her occurred. Not sure, but did notice just how close that riverbed is to where she was last seen.

Nix that thought, After looking again at the map, it appears that she would have been found upstream, not downstream. Easy walking distance though.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I went back to read the beginning posts in this case to see if there was anything I forgot. Not much really although I have wondered if she was in her room all day and night or at least at night. She popped her head out at 8 the folks say so that means she was in there prior, too early to be going to bed for most. Was she grounded, did she just prefer to stay in her room and what was she doing? On the computer and phone would seem likely.

Went out a window so as not to alert the dog so she was definitely running away and being sneaky about it.

Her phone pinged at an AirBNB it says. That struck me at first but then I thought maybe that just means she was outside such nearby? Or did she meet someone who was staying there? Or hope to stay there herself? Or maybe again she was just walking by...

The phone pinged her computer too.

They don't say a whole lot about if there were other pings over time or if it stopped working or when, etc.

It is said she was verbal, very naive and had the maturity of a 12 or 13 year old. I get the impression she is fairly high functioning but at that age level.

The mother seems to think she had been abducted, at least she did before she was found.

Most of what was shared came from family and not LE. I would think LE would have done full forensics on her computer, phone, etc. Even though they didn't have the phone, they can get a lot of its activity from the company.

A cause of death would help too but we don't know that either.

The last thing is she ran away before carrying a bible and was found in a church. However, this was some years before and her purpose in this case could have been entirely different than the first time.

If she didn't drown, then I'd say she was meeting someone is where I lean. New facts and cause of death could change that though.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Missing Ojai woman's cause, manner of death undetermined

The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Zyanya Valora’s cause and manner of death as undetermined.

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Missing Ojai woman's cause, manner of death undetermined​

For a year and a half, the family of Zyanya Valora has searched for answers — first on the whereabouts of the missing Ojai Valley woman and then, after her body was discovered, what happened to her.

But the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office’s investigative and examination reports released earlier this month did not provide them with answers.

The agency ruled both Valora’s cause and manner of death as undetermined. There were no obvious signs of trauma to her remains, the report says.

On Sept. 24, a group of Ojai Land Conservancy employees was clearing invasive plants from the Ventura River bottom when one of them discovered human remains south of the Baldwin Road bridge.

The riverbed is dry, covered in shrubs and remote. In his four-page investigative report, James Baroni, medical examiner investigator, said the area where the body was discovered could only be accessed by driving to the eastern edge of the property at 1000 Burnham Road, hiking down a steep berm and then walking a couple hundred yards more.

The address for the nearby property is about 2.5 miles from Valora’s home.

The bones were scattered roughly 30 feet apart, and her cell phone and torn clothing were also found in the area, according to the report. The office could not determine where Valora died.

The documents state Valora’s remains were identified using dental record comparisons and then sent to California University State, Chico for trauma evaluation.

Christopher Young, Ventura County’s chief medical examiner, performed the autopsy Oct. 7. In his one–page examination report, he wrote that there were no signs of perimortem trauma, or trauma that occurred at or near the time of death, to the partial skeletal remains. There was, however, evidence of scavenger feeding activity, he wrote.


Dec. 17 would have been Valora’s 23rd birthday.

But instead of celebrating with her, they held her celebration of life Dec. 13 at Calvary Community Church in Westlake Village.