25 nov 1973 año - Lulaida Morales Sejalbo DISAPPEARANCE

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Lulaida Morales Sejalbo was a 17-year-old girl of Filipina descent. At the time of her disappearance she was a student at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, and she worked at a McDonald's there.

Lulaida disappeared on November 25, 1973. All modern sources state that she disappeared on her way home from work. However, the January 1, 1974 edition of the Peninsula Times Tribune states that after having dinner with her family, Lulaida left to go bowling with a female friend; she was last seen at about 11pm by the friend as she started to drive home from bowling, and she has not been seen or heard from since.

All sources, including the clipping, state that Lulaida was last seen wearing her McDonald's work uniform.

On December 24, 1973 -- one month after her disappearance -- Lulaida's car was found abandoned in Santa Clara with her purse inside. According to the Peninsula Times Herald, a coat belonging to Lulaida was also found inside the car, while other sources do not mention the coat. CA DOJ, Charley Project, and Doe Network state that Lulaida's keys were inside the car as well as her purse, alongside "other personal belongings" according to Charley Project and Doe Network.

The Charley Project states that Lulaida's work uniform was also found inside her car; however, this is the only source that says so.

Lulaida was on good terms with her family, and had no apparent motive to run away. According to the Peninsula Times Herald, Lulaida had lived in the US periodically since 1969, and she "speaks English, but not fluently." According to the Charley Project, authorities believe that Lulaida may have been taken against her will.

On May 20, 2019, user nanajani commented on Lulaida's WebSleuths thread: "Lulida was my friend. She was so sweet and had a beautiful smile. She was from the Philipines, and was living with her aunt and uncle when she disappeared. She had just gotten off work at McDonalds, which was just off the corner of Scott Blvd and El Camino Real (original location, not the one just torn down). She was supposed to go to a birthday party if I recall correctly, but never made it there. We always thought somebody was waiting in her car in the McDonald's parking lot, but I don't know if that is the truth."


Lulaida was born on December 3, 1955; if alive today, she would be 69 years old. She was a junior in high school at the time of her disappearance. She was in the Wilcox High School yearbook in 1972 (when she was a freshman), 1973, and 1974.

At the time of her disappearance, Lulaida was 17 years old, 5'3, and 120lb, with brown eyes and long black hair. She has a scar on her right foot, as well as a small mole on her lower left lip. She may use the first name Loyola. One of her teeth -- tooth 19 -- is missing. Tooth 18 has restorations, and teeth 17 and 20 are virgin teeth.

Some sources say that Lulaida is Asian, while others state that she is Pacific Islander. It is definite that Lulaida was Filipina; the discrepancy is instead due to differing interpretations of what race "Filipina" would fall under, as the Philippines is an Asian island country in the Pacific Ocean.

Lulaida's fingerprints are not available, but her DNA and dentals are. Furthermore, according to CA DOJ, her dental x-rays are available. NCMEC has created an estimation of what Lulaida would look like age progressed to 59 years old (c.2015).

Foul play has been suspected in Lulaida's case since at least January 1974, and continues to be suspected to this day. She is classified as Endangered Missing on Charley Project, while her case is classified as a Non-Family Abduction on the Doe Network.

The Santa Clara Police Department is investigating. A newspaper clipping from January 1974 states that, "Anyone with information regarding [Lulaida] may contact Officer Paula Florentina at the Juvenile Bureau of the SCPD"; while none of the other sources mentioned it, it's possible that Lulaida's case is still (as of Jan. 2025) being handled by the Juvenile Bureau.

Anyone with information regarding Lulaida should contact the Santa Clara PD at 1-408-615-5580 (according to NCMEC) or (408) 615-4700 (according to NamUs, CA DOJ, DN, and Charley Project). The agency case number is 8019037. Tips can also be submitted via NCMEC (link provided below); her NCMEC case number is 1232639.

Lulaida has nine (9) UID exclusions on NamUs, five of which were found in CA, while the other four were found in VA. None of the UIDs are estimated to be Asian or Pacific Islander. The CA Does include an unidentified Black female found in Orange County in 2005. The remaining CA Does were found in San Bernardino, including Nipton Jane Doe 1985. The other three no longer have available NamUs pages: one of them, Ranco Cucamonga Jane Doe, has since been IDed as Karen Marie Heverley, while the other two were found in 1989 and 1999, respectively. Lulaida is also on the NamUs exclusion list of San Fernando Jane Doe 1976, however Jane Doe is not on Lulaida's list; however they are both included as rule-outs on each other's wiki pages.


** While I originally had this case tagged as "Database," as I found it while going through NamUs, etc, I have since found that Lulaida has been brought up in a Zodiac forum at least once in an "All Other Possible Zodiac Victims" thread, so I have since changed this case to a "Connection."

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DAY OF WEEK: Sunday
EVENTS: Nov 22 = Thanksgiving (3 days earlier)

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