Mount Waterman

On June 22, 2025, this unforgiving playground became the setting for another baffling disappearance.

Monica Reza, a 60-year-old hiker, vanished from the well-trodden trails near Mount Waterman.

Her case triggered a massive multi-agency search operation, drew intense public scrutiny, and ultimately settled into the quiet, uncertain status of an open and ongoing investigation.

The disappearance of an experienced hiker in good health and unfamiliar territory from the midst of her own hiking party presents a profound mystery.

She had no known health conditions that would have contributed to her disappearance, further deepening the mystery.

The day began as a routine outing.

Monica Reza was hiking with two companions in the popular Mount Waterman area of the Angeles National Forest.

The last confirmed sighting of her occurred at approximately 9.10 a.m. near the 6,000-foot gate on Angeles Crest Highway, a location also identified as 6001 Trailhead Avenue.

On June twenty-second, twenty twenty-five, this unforgiving playground became the setting for another baffling disappearance.

Monica Reza, a sixty-year-old hiker, vanished from the well-trodden trails near Mount Waterman.

Her case triggered a massive multi-agency search operation through intense public scrutiny and ultimately settled into the quiet, uncertain status of an open and ongoing investigation.

The disappearance of an experienced hiker in good health and in familiar territory from the midst of her own hiking party presents a profound mystery.

She had no known health conditions that would have contributed to her disappearance, further deepening the mystery.

The day began as a routine outing.

Monica Reza was hiking with two companions in the popular Mount Waterman area of the Angeles National Forest.

The last confirmed sighting of her occurred at approximately nine ten AM near the six-thousand-foot gate on Angeles Crest Highway, a location also identified as sixty thousand and one Trailhead Avenue.

and she was in her mid-40s she used to love hiking she was fit and healthy and allegedly she also worked on exotic minerals materials sorry in terms of metals and she was a metallurgist materials engineer so she could try and make new materials and the rumor has it that she made a new material or discovered one called mandaloi which is a ultra high temperature nickel super alloy for rocket engines.

And what's really weird about this case is she was hiking on Mount Waterman with a companion.

together and he was walking in front of her she was behind walking together he's smiling and and he looked round he saw her smiling and they waved into each other there a few feet

30 feet they said they estimated 30

In 2023, she'd been working in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

And on the morning of June 22nd, 2025, Monica went for a hike up Mount Waterman Trail in the Los Angeles National Forest, above Los Angeles.

and she was last seen around nine in the morning.

And then, same as all the rest, she's gone.