FBI’s help sought over mysterious disappearance of woman in 1998

While sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk have been missing for over three weeks now, another family has been seeking answers for 13 years now over the mysterious disappearance of Rosaline Santos Camacho in 1998.

Rosaline was 33 years old and a mother of four when she was reported missing on Aug. 23, 1998 on Saipan. Her husband, Francisco San Nicolas Camacho, was then a police detective and is now retired.

Saipan Tribune learned that Francisco Camacho’s sister is Magdalena, former wife of Elbert Quitugua. Elbert and Magdalena are the grandparents of the Luhk sisters.

Albert Sablan Santos, 47, in an interview yesterday said the family decided to contact Saipan Tribune after the newspaper ran a story on Tuesday, June 14, about seven missing persons in the CNMI since 1995.

Albert Santos said they are wondering why the case of their sister, Rosaline, was not included.

Saipan Tribune did not include on the list persons who reportedly drowned and whose bodies were never recovered. Rosaline’s case was not included because there was not enough information available about her disappearance.

Albert Santos said they are appealing to the FBI to re-open the investigation into the disappearance of their sister because they strongly believe there was a cover up back then.

“Until now I don’t feel my sister is dead because there’s no proof,” Albert Santos said. “We don’t believe it’s a suicide case.”

Antonio Santos, 52, said her sister Rosaline had a fight with her husband that’s why she left their house and stayed with her sister in Koblerville for a week.

Antonio Santos said that, it was on a Saturday night in August 1998 when Rosaline borrowed the Toyota Camry of her sister and left the house.

Rosaline never returned home and the following morning between 8am to 9am, the car was found parked in the back of the Coral Ocean Point’s golf course.

Antonio Santos said Rosaline’s slippers were found on a cliffline or about 50 feet away from the car.

Albert Santos pointed out that police did not cordon the car at the scene with yellow tape and that investigators did not lift fingerprints.

“Police just brought the car to the DPS impound area,” Albert Santos said.

He said they were told that there were signs of struggle in the car, but when the family went to the scene, police did not allow them to see the vehicle.

“And who found the car?” Albert Santos asked but refused to elaborate.

Albert Santos said similar to the Faloma and Maleina Luhk case, their family and friends scoured inside the jungles and other areas on the island for two to three weeks.

He said at the cemetery, they even put the word “missing” and not “dead” on the lapida of Rosaline’s tomb since they did not find her body.

“The family is really hoping that the FBI will step into the investigation. We have to find our sister,” he said.