Family, friends hold vigil for missing Delaware County mother who disappeared 10 years ago

To this day, officials still haven't named a possible suspect in Ortiz-Rodriquez's disappearance.

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Thursday, April 20, 2023
Family, friends hold vigil for missing Delaware County mother who disappeared 10 years ago
Family, friends hold vigil for missing Delaware County mother who disappeared 10 years ago

COLLINGDALE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Family and friends gathered for an emotional, candlelight vigil Wednesday night honoring the memory of a Delaware County mother who went missing 10 years ago.

Melissa Ortiz-Rodriguez, 30, left her home in Collingdale on April 19, 2013, to visit a friend. She was never seen or heard from again.

Her estranged husband, Jose Rodriguez, reported her missing five days later.

Investigators secured a search warrant to check her husband, but to this day, officials haven't named a possible suspect in Ortiz-Rodriquez's disappearance.

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At the time she went missing, her daughters were seven and 11 years old.