A MISSING woman told her brother that she was going to the store and she'll "be right back" before she apparently vanished, her frantic mom revealed.
Jolissa Fuentes' mom, Norma Nunez, exclusively told The U.S. Sun that no one has seen or heard from the 22-year-old woman since 3.30am on August 7, when she seemingly disappeared.
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Jolissa was last spotted on a surveillance video at a Selma, California gas station around 4am the same morning.
She tried to FaceTime her sister at 3.59am, but Jolissa's sister was sleeping and didn't answer.
"Why did she FaceTime? Did she want to show us something? Was something wrong?" her concerned mom said.
"Everything's been going through our heads."
MISSING PERSON STORIES
In the early hours of that morning, Jolissa tried to call her sister at 5.25am and again 5.26am, which was her last known activity, according to her dad Joey Fuentes.
"I know she's alive. I can feel it. I'm feeling desperate. I'm broken," her mother went on.
"I just want someone to give back our Jolissa."
The family has spent weeks scouring the vast countryside around Selma, California for weeks.
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Each home is far apart, Nunez said.
Her whole family, along with Good Samaritans, has been handing out posters with Jolissa's picture and checking everyone's doorbell cameras for any clues.
Some have used their drones and been communicating on Facebook groups to coordinate their efforts - but nothing concrete has come from the search as of Tuesday evening.
Adventures With Purpose (AWP), an Oregon-based volunteer diving search team that found missing Kiely Rodni's truck and body in the water, will join the search on Wednesday, August 24.
Since 2019, the group has helped solve 23 missing person cases.
"I'm anxious. I don't know what they'll find. I'm nervous about what they'll find," Nunez said.
Jolissa disappeared a day after 16-year-old Kiely went missing near a reservoir in Truckee, California, which is nearly 300 miles north of Selma.
Kiely went missing in August 2022 after a wild party in the woods near a campsite but there doesn't appear to be any connection between the two cases.
COPS' LATEST UPDATE
Selma police said during Monday afternoon's press conference that "it's very rare" that a 22-year-old woman has no digital footprint.
Selma Police Chief Rudy Alcaraz said that includes "cell phones, social media, bank cards, things of that nature."
"Additionally from the onset of this, the Fuentes family was adamant that this is not normal behavior for Jolissa," the police chief said.
Nunez exclusively revealed to The U.S. Sun that Jolissa would've called her and she "is very close with her grandmother and would've definitely called her."
Alcaraz also said on Monday that because this is not normal behavior for the woman, authorities are treating her case as being criminal in nature.
It is believed that Jolissa may have gone to the area near Pine Flat and Avocado Lake.
Nunez said a friend of her daughter was killed there years ago and the young woman often visits the area to clear her head.
Police said they've spent 288 hours searching the area since her disappearance using 16 off-road vehicles and covering 1,740 ground miles.
'ENORMOUS' SEARCH AREA
"We're doing all we can with the resources we have," Alcaraz said.
However, Alcaraz described the area as "enormous," and said that authorities continue to use cell phone tower triangulation to refine the search area.
The police chief also said that his force has been impacted by Covid, which "continues to be a hindrance to us at times."
Patrol officers are being pulled to help address any tips that come in, Alcaraz noted.
He also said that the police department continues to follow various leads in the case.
REWARD FOR INFORMATION
A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to Jolissa's location.
Authorities continue to search for a 2011 silver Hyundai with the license plate 8MPU766, which remains missing.
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Nunez begged anyone with information to contact the Selma Police Department at (559) 891-2252 with any tip or any piece of information.
"Please reach out to Selma police and keep Jolissa in your prayers," her doting mom said through tears.
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