America's Most Wanted - Missing Santiago Family

Family renews plea for help more than 15 years after boys, father vanish without a trace
On July 12, 2002 an Oahu man and his two young sons disappeared. It was the last time anyone saw Victorio Santiago and his two children. Noel was 11 and Daniel was 7.
There was an extensive search which turned up empty, and the case was even featured on America’s Most Wanted.
“I just want to see them and know they are alive. I just want to know they are doing good and healthy and one day that we will be reunited,” Victorio’s brother Gilbert Santiago said.
Victorio was estranged from his wife at the time.
He was staying in the barracks at Pearl Harbor since he was in the Navy at the time while his wife and kids were living in Radford Terrace.
Gilbert says he remembers getting a phone call from their neighbor.
“According to the person who told me what had happened, my brother had some flowers to try to convince the wife to patch things up and resolve this thing so they can get together as a family,” Gilbert recalled. “And they got into an argument, and according to the cops he beat her and fled with the two kids. And that’s it, no more. But the question is, where’s the rental car until now?”
The light green Daewoo Leganza sedan Victorio had been driving was never found despite an extensive search.
The trio also disappeared without a trace.
“The investigation has not only included Oahu, but also the other islands and we’ve looked into the possibility of Mr. Santiago leaving and going outside of the state or country and on those searches we came out negative,” HPD detective Phil Camero said in 2002.
Where could they be?
“The investigators asked me that. If you were Victorio, where would you be hiding? I said honestly I would be hiding in the Philippines,” Gilbert said.
The Victorinos still have family in the Philippines.
But Gilbert says his brother hasn’t contacted any of them.
How hard has it been on your family not knowing what happened to them?
“It’s always hard because we don’t know. There’s no closure on this situation. It can be sad if I know they’re gone completely, but at least I know there’s some closure already. But now that we’re in limbo we don’t know,” Gilbert explained.
Origional broadcast 1/26/08

[@keeppunchin2302]

Awesome!!!! Keep em coming!!! I’ve been wanting to watch these old America’s wanted videos for so long!! Please keep uploading as many as you can!! Thank you

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

Since they never found the car he could have driven it off a cliff and into the ocean with his kids inside

[@adape0884frank]

He also might of sold it to someone who imported it to another country.