Bones IDENTITY still a mystery

As Councilmember Hiram Monserrate joined family members of Reyna Isabel De Los Santos to call upon the NYPD to allocate additional resources to the nine-month investigation aiming to find her, cops are trying to determine whether the bones found in a suitcase in Forest Park on March 4 are her remains.
The mother of two, including an 18-year-old autistic son, Ariel Reyes, had been reported as missing from her Woodhaven residence on June 19 of last year.
According to police reports, De Los Santos left her house around 8 p.m. after a domestic dispute with her husband, Edwin Fuentes, and never returned.
However, family members dispute this account and suspect that De Los Santos is the victim of foul play.
A spokesperson for the family, Enrique Lugo, told The Queens Courier that the family found De Los Santos’ purse, money, identification, and cellular phone at the house. They also pointed out that the husband did not file a missing persons report until June 22, three days after she reportedly left the home, when family members came to the house looking for De Los Santos.
The couple had fought in the past and De Los Santos was considering a separation from Fuentes; she decided to stay for Ariel’s sake, said Lugo.
Family members also cite an incident late last year when police were summoned to the home to investigate a neighbor’s complaint. The police found Fuentes in a severely intoxicated state and bleeding from an eye abrasion. He was the sole caregiver for Reyes - who requires 24-hour care - that night, said Lugo.
The city medical examiner has not yet completed its identification analysis of the bones, said a spokesperson for the Office for the Chief Medical Examiner.
Shortly after De Los Santos’ disappearance, a widespread community campaign sent volunteers to comb the neighborhood for her whereabouts or signs she may have returned to her home country, the Dominican Republic. Search efforts there have not turned up any clues.
The family wants the NYPD to expand their ongoing investigation.
“My sister did not abandon her children. My sister was a victim of a homicide. The Police Department needs to treat it as such,” said Marisol De Los Santos.