Angelica Sandoval (3 of Hearts, Colorado)

Angelica's grandfather, Ernest, had been the one to report her missing to the Alamosa Police Department on February 24th, 2011.

Ernest told the responding officer that he had been at Angelica's home watching her one-year-old daughter while Angelica was at a nearby laundromat.He said that when she returned home, she had parked on the street and brought some laundry inside, and then she went back for another load, but then she just never returned.

Now, her grandfather knew that something wasn't right, and he called the police, because nothing about the scene that wintery night made him believe she had just walked away.

I mean, forget how her car was left open and all her things left behind.

The one thing he knew she would never leave behind was her daughter.

Now, police held just a beat.

Maybe she forgot something or just went to a neighbor's.

But when there was still no sign of Angelica by the afternoon, police returned and began a coordinated search of the area.

From what he's learned about Angelica through interviews and her case file, Captain Burch doesn't think she would have abandoned her daughter either, and he doesn't think that she would have gone with someone willingly.

Our reporter spoke with six of Angelica's friends and family members, and a picture emerged of someone who was petite in size, but not in spirit.

She was four-eleven and a hundred and five pounds with dark hair, brown eyes, and distinctive tattoos.

Sad girl across her knuckles, the name of her daughter on her shoulder, and paw prints along her left rib cage.

By all accounts, Angelica was the kind of person who could handle herself, the kind of person who wouldn't go quietly.

Just from what I've been able to figure out throughout the case file, Angelica was kind of a spunky, in your face girl.

She's a tough, tough girl.

Um, her family's tough.

She's tough, and street smart is the best term I could use, right? She's a street smart girl.

And yet, as police canvassed the neighborhood around the duplex, working their way down 13th Street and nearby roads, interviewing more than a dozen people, no one in the area reported anything unusual that night.

Not even her grandfather who told police that he'd been right inside the house when Angelica disappeared.