Saturday, July 11, 2009

Eridania Rodriguez, Sister Of Bodybuilder Victor Rodriguez, Is Missing

The disappearance of 46-year-old cleaning person Eridania Rodriguez made it into The New York Times. “Wow,” you might find yourself saying, immediately after closing the tab so it doesn’t look like you’re reading Guanabee instead of doing work, “it’s so rare to encounter a missing person report that isn’t about a tiny, blue-eyed white girl. Not that there’s anything wrong with girls who are white, tiny, or blue-eyed.” Indeed! And we hope this means that she is found and safely returned to her kids.

It also turns out that one of Ms. Rodriguez’s brothers is marginally famous. Victor Rodriguez is a highly ranked bodybuilder. And probably not a man on whose bad side you want to get by, say, causing harm to his sister.

Eridania’s co-workers say they grew concerned when Eridania did not meet them for their dinner break while cleaning a building in lower Manhattan. When they went to look for her, all they found was her mop and hair clip. Her clothing and purse were found hanging on the building’s 10th floor, and her cleaning cart on the 8th. Given Eridania was not in the habit of leaving her things overnight, her co-workers began to suspect foul play. Video surveillance from that Tuesday night last show Eridania, in the blue jumpsuit she used while on the job, pushing her cleaning cart into an elevator between 7 and 7:30. At 7:30, she telephoned her daughter.

Investigators have learned that a moving crew was working on one of Eridania’s floors the night of her disappearance, and that she had also expressed fear over a fired worker who kept returning to the building. Sketch.

Eridania’s other brother, Cesar, says it’s hard to lay blame on himself for her disappearance because he got her the job at this particular building through his connections as a security guard.

Police, however, are anticipating the worst and have begun combing a Pennsylvania landfill were trash and debris from the office building are taken.

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