MISSING: Arianna Fitts
When Nicole Fitts is found murdered in a park in San Francisco, both her family and law enforcement have the same two questions: who killed her, and where is her 2-year-old daughter, Arianna? The investigation into Arianna’s disappearance leads them right to the people who were supposed to be watching her… but they quickly realize that this case won’t be easy solve.
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Arianna was last seen with her babysitters, Helena Martin and Siolo Hearne.
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Please contact the authorities if you have any information that could help to bring Arianna home:
The San Francisco Police Department
Call the San Francisco Police Department’s 24-hourtip line at 1-415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.
Black & Missing Foundation
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Episode Source Material
- KRON4 (San Francisco, CA): Video: San Francisco police are searching for a missing “at risk” girl, by Carlos Mendoza.
- ABC 7 (Los Angeles, CA): SFPD continues search for missing toddler after mother found dead, by Cornell Barnard.
- ABC 7 (Los Angeles, CA): SF police have no concrete leads after mother killed, toddler missing, by Sergio Quintana.
- ABC 7 (Los Angeles, CA): Statewide search in effect for missing toddler Arianna Fitts, by Cornell Barnard.
- KTVU Fox 2 (Oakland, CA): SFPD exhausting leads in bizarre homicide case with missing 2-year-old, by KTVU Fox 2.
- KTVU Fox 2 (Oakland, CA): FBI assists in homicide, missing toddler case, by KTVU Fox 2.
- KRON 4 (San Francisco, CA): Vigil held for slain mother as police continue search for missing girl, by Jacquelyn Quinones.
- NBC Bay Area (San Jose, CA): SFPD Asks For Help Identifying Logo Spraypainted on Board Used to Bury Mother of Missing Toddler, by Riya Bhattacharjee.
- KRON4 (San Francisco, CA): Video: Coworkers of murdered mother join in search effort for missing 2-year-old daughter in San Francisco, by Vince Cestone.
- CBS Bay Area (San Francisco, CA): Murdered Woman’s 2-Year-Old Daughter Remains Missing, by CBS San Francisco.
- KTVU Fox 2 (Oakland, CA): Reward offered in San Francisco missing toddler case, by KTVU Fox 2.
- KRON4 (San Francisco, CA): Video: $10K reward offered for return of missing 2-year-old Arianna Fitts, by Vince Cestone.
- CBS SF Bay Area (San Francisco, CA): $10K Reward Announced In Missing San Francisco Toddler Case, by CBS San Francisco and Bay City News Service.
- KTVU Fox 2 (Oakland, CA): Nicole Fitts: Family, friends to honor woman one year after her slaying, by KTVU Fox 2.
- NBC Bay Area (San Jose, CA): ‘Arianna is Still Alive’: Vigil Held for Missing San Francisco Toddler, Dead Mother, by Chuck Coppola and Cheryl Hurd.
- SF Weekly (San Francisco, CA): Where Is Arianna Fitts?, by Nuala Sawyer Bishari.
- San Francisco Police (San Francisco, CA): San Francisco Police Announce $100,000 Reward in Homicide Investigation of Nicole Fitts and Age Progression Forensic Sketch in the Disappearance of Arianna Fitts 20-034.
- ABC 7 (Los Angeles, CA): $250K reward offered as SFPD finds new leads in murder of Nicole Fitts, her daughter’s disappearance, by Lyanne Melendez.
- NBC Bay Areas (San Jose, CA): Reward Increased in Unsolved Case of Mother Found Buried in SF Park, Missing Daughter, by NBC Bay Area staff.
- CBS Bay Area (San Francisco, CA): Murdered Woman’s 2-Year-Old Daughter Remains Missing, by CBS San Francisco.
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