The Advocate

09/27/2026

Before taking your child into a fair, stadium, mall or amusement park, take one current full-body photo.

If you get separated, you'll have their exact clothes, shoes, hair and appearance from that day. Five seconds can save a lot of guessing.

09/27/2026

🚨 POSSIBLE GOOD NEWS UPDATE: We’re receiving multiple reports that Jayden Carrillo may have been found.

We are monitoring this closely, but we have not yet independently confirmed his status through Odessa Police, so we’re not marking the original missing-person post as resolved just yet.

If the reports are confirmed, we’ll immediately update the post so everyone knows to stop circulating the active missing alert.

🙏 We’re hoping this is the good news everyone has been waiting for.

🚨 SOMEBODY IN ODESSA KNOWS SOMETHING.

24-year-old Jayden Carrillo is missing, and Odessa Police are asking for the public’s help finding him.

Jayden was last seen in the 2200 block of Rocky Lane in Odessa. He’s approximately 5’10” and 185 pounds.

This is exactly why local shares matter.

Maybe somebody saw him walking somewhere. Maybe somebody gave him a ride. Maybe a business or homeowner nearby has camera footage that caught something useful.

One small detail could be the detail that matters.

If you’ve seen Jayden or have information about where he may be, contact:

📞 Odessa Police: 432-333-3641
📞 Odessa Crime Stoppers: 432-333-TIPS

Case #26-0009824

West Texas, get his name and photo moving.

Jayden Carrillo. 24. Missing in Odessa.

🙏 Let’s help bring him home.

09/26/2026

🚨 SOMEBODY IN ODESSA KNOWS SOMETHING.

24-year-old Jayden Carrillo is missing, and Odessa Police are asking for the public’s help finding him.

Jayden was last seen in the 2200 block of Rocky Lane in Odessa. He’s approximately 5’10” and 185 pounds.

This is exactly why local shares matter.

Maybe somebody saw him walking somewhere. Maybe somebody gave him a ride. Maybe a business or homeowner nearby has camera footage that caught something useful.

One small detail could be the detail that matters.

If you’ve seen Jayden or have information about where he may be, contact:

📞 Odessa Police: 432-333-3641
📞 Odessa Crime Stoppers: 432-333-TIPS

Case #26-0009824

West Texas, get his name and photo moving.

Jayden Carrillo. 24. Missing in Odessa.

🙏 Let’s help bring him home.

09/26/2026

🚨 SOUTH DAKOTA, LOOK AT HER FACE. SHE’S ONLY 13.

Dayavauni Watson is missing from Rapid City, South Dakota.

Police say the 13-year-old hasn’t been seen since around 9:30 Friday night, September 25.

She was last seen wearing dark-gray sweatpants and a black sweatshirt with a large star on the front.

Right now, there’s no verified information saying Dayavauni was abducted or that another person was involved. We’re not going to add rumors to a missing-child case.

We’re going to get her face out there.

Somebody may have seen her. Somebody may recognize her. And with a case this fresh, getting her picture in front of as many people as possible matters.

If you’ve seen Dayavauni or know where she may be, contact the Rapid City Police Department at 605-394-4131.

Dayavauni Watson. 13 years old. Rapid City, South Dakota.

Keep your eyes open and help bring this young lady home. 🙏

09/22/2026

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09/22/2026

Some daughters spend years thinking their mother was “too emotional,” “too strict,” or “always worried.”

Then they become mothers.

Suddenly the phone calls make sense. The reminders make sense. The fear when you were late makes sense. The way she could not sleep until she knew you were home makes sense.

Growing up has a strange way of turning old annoyances into proof of love.

09/21/2026

One of the strangest parts of losing somebody is how often your mind forgets for half a second.

Something funny happens and you reach for your phone.

You hear a song they loved.

You see something at the store they would have bought.

You think, “I need to tell them about this.”

Then reality catches up.

Those tiny moments can hurt more than the big anniversaries because they remind you how naturally that person was woven into your everyday life.

Grief is not only missing somebody during the important moments.

Sometimes it is missing the ordinary conversations nobody else even knew mattered.

09/20/2026

Grief changes when enough time passes.

At first, you miss everything.

Their voice. Their chair. Their phone number. Their shoes by the door.

Later, the grief becomes quieter.

You may go days without crying.

Then a smell, a song, a recipe, or somebody laughing the same way suddenly brings them back into the room for a second.

That does not mean you failed to heal.

Healing never meant forgetting.

It means learning how to carry love for somebody who is no longer physically here.

Some days you carry it easily.

Other days it still feels heavy.

Both are normal.

09/20/2026

Maybe healing is not becoming the woman you were before everything happened.

Maybe that woman is gone.

She trusted differently.

She loved differently.

She believed things that experience later changed.

Trying to become her again may be impossible.

Maybe the goal is to become somebody new.

A woman who is still kind but pays attention.

Still loving but no longer abandons herself.

Still hopeful but no longer ignores obvious warning signs.

Still soft, but not defenseless.

You do not have to return to who you were before the pain.

You can become somebody wiser because you survived it.

09/20/2026

Should every school give parents a simple reunification plan before an emergency happens?

Where do parents go? What identification is required? Who can pick up the child? How will updates be sent?

That is information families should not be learning for the first time during a crisis.