Panamanian authorities are offering a reward for information on the disappearance of Yvette Beldelli, who was last seen in November. Vikki Vargas reports from Mission Viejo for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on April 26, 2012.
The family of a missing Orange County woman last seen in Panama in November has launched a social media campaign to find her.
Yvonne Baldelli, a 42-year-old woman from Laguna Niguel, has been missing since late November, when she was last seen in Bocas del Toro on Panama’s Caribbean coast.
Her family has launched a Facebook campaign to find her, and they plan to search for her in Panama beginning Friday.
Panamanian authorities are offering a $3,000 reward for information in Baldelli's disappearance. Baldelli traveled to the Central American country in September with her boyfriend.
Panamanian authorities had said at a news conference Tuesday that Baldelli’s boyfriend, whom they did not name, was a person of interest, according to the Orange County Register.
Former neighbors of Baldelli's said she lived in a Mission Viejo home with her then-husband. The couple moved to Rancho Santa Maragarita, then divorced a couple of years ago.
Baldelli's family said her boyfriend returned to the United States in December and married another woman.
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The boyfriend told authorities Baldelli had left Panama for Costa Rica, but Panamanian officials said they had concluded she never left the country.
Though the FBI confirmed it was assisting the investigation, it would not comment on the boyfriend’s status, the Register reported.
Authorities were informed that Baldelli had gone missing two months after she was last seen Nov. 26. Her sister, Michelle Faust, said Baldelli was often out of touch.
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