Easter will mark a tragic reminder for Luz Maldonado and her family. Twelve years ago, the holiday was the last time anyone saw her first-born child alive.
Camden resident Stephanie Rosado, then 26, was last seen by her roommate on Easter, which fell on April 12 in 2009, authorities said.
“She took a backpack, he thought she was going to see her son,” Lt. Paul Audino of the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit said in a release Friday. “She walked out the door, she got into a vehicle with an unknown person and that’s the last time she was seen alive.”
Maldonado said she briefly saw her daughter around New Year’s Day that year.
“Beautiful, beautiful daughter,” she said in the release. “She was always with her son, she always came over every other weekend or every weekend, holidays, until she got married. When she got married things changed a little bit, of course. But she always came around, always came around.”
Rosado was not living with her husband and was staying with her roommate at the time, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office told NJ Advance Media.
After getting married, Maldonado said Stephanie got involved in a high-risk lifestyle, often going for periods of time without seeing family or friends, according to the release. It was during one of those periods that she disappeared and was reported missing out of Camden.
Just over a month after her roommate saw her leave, a piece of human remains washed up along the Delaware River on May 23, 2009, authorities said. However, it wasn’t until 2011 that the remains were confirmed to be from Stephanie.
Nearly 12 years after her disappearance and suspicious death, the family of 26-year-old Camden resident Stephanie Rosado are left searching for answers.Camden County Prosecutor's Office
A year later, more remains were found along the river. They were linked to Stephanie in 2013, police said. It was at that time Audino began investigating the case and took on the task of figuring out what happened to Stephanie four years earlier.
“We’ve backtracked to the point where we know where she was living and what she was doing for the previous year or two, but there’s still that one to two months from the last time somebody saw her until her first human remain was found that we can’t figure out where she was, what she was doing, or who she was with,” Audino said.
In 2017, another piece of Stephanie’s remains washed up along the river, but Audino said it was still not enough to solve the mystery and her case remains categorized as a suspicious death to this day until more evidence can be found or collected.
Maldonado said the hardest part is not knowing what happened to her daughter, but believing someone has the answers and is just not coming forward.
“Devastating,” Maldonado said in the release. “I can’t even imagine, you know what I mean? It’s so hard for me to talk to you right now. I’m ready to break down, but I’m going to keep it together.”
Audino said he hoped that as time goes on, people will start to come forward and say more about Rosado’s sudden disappearance and death.
“As time goes on, certain people start to remember different things. Maybe now they want to come forward and say certain things which they didn’t want to in the past,” he said. “So much time has gone by, I’m hoping somebody wants to give information now to us to help us further the investigation.”
For now, Stephanie’s family members, including her son who still lives in the area, say they’ll continue holding on to hope that her case will be solved.
“I just want them to come forward because I need this closure,” Maldonado said. “I really do.”
Anyone with information regarding the disappearance and suspicious death of Rosado was asked to contact Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Mike Batista at 856-676-8175 or send a confidential tip to ccpotips@ccprosecutor.org.
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Chris Sheldon may be reached at csheldon@njadvancemedia.com.
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