Marlena Olivas carries posters of her 2-year-old daughter, who has been missing from her North Las Vegas foster home since Saturday morning. Olivas spent Monday evening at the corner of Lamb Boulevard and Tacoma Avenue, where toddler clothing was found. The clothes do not fit the description of the outfit Everlyse Cabrera was wearing when she went missing, but analysis of the clothes is being conducted just in case. Photo by Ralph Fountain.
Everlyse Cabrera Girl, 2, was reported missing from her North
Las Vegas foster home
Click image for enlargement. Graphic by Mike Johnson.
"We need to keep hope," Olivas said Monday. "I want to keep people aware of this. I want people to have a heart. I want people to feel for that little girl. Just because 48 hours has gone by doesn't mean I am just going to leave. How could I live that way? We just need her back and alive."
North Las Vegas police believe Everlyse used a stool to climb up and unlock a deadbolt on the front door and left the foster home in the 6500 block of Diamond Point Court, near Centennial Parkway and Clayton Street, sometime after 1 a.m. Saturday.
When she was put to bed, Everlyse was wearing a pink T-shirt, pink shorts and no shoes. The foster mother discovered the dark-haired, brown-eyed toddler was missing about 8 a.m. The foster parents contacted police about noon Saturday. It is unclear why the family waited four hours to contact police.
But there were no new clues Monday that might lead investigators and Olivas to the girl. Police spokesman Tim Bedwell said the foster family was brought in for a further round of interviews on Monday, but they are no longer cooperating with the investigation.
There are no suspects because there is no proof a crime has been committed, Bedwell said.
Toddler clothing was discovered near Tacoma Avenue and Lamb Boulevard, near Tropicana Avenue, but it does not fit the description of the clothing Everlyse was wearing when she went missing, Bedwell said.
Forensic analysis of the clothes will be conducted, however, just to be sure, he said.
Olivas spent Monday evening posting fliers in that neighborhood -- more than 16 miles from the foster home -- hoping someone will recognize her daughter.
Olivas said family members are gathering money to offer a reward to anyone who can help her find Everlyse.
"Anyone who has knowledge of where she is or who may have her please call. It doesn't matter what may have been done to my daughter, just drop her off at a fire station or something," Olivas said, the strain of sleepless nights and a mother's worry obvious in her voice.
Everlyse and her 11-month-old brother had been living with the foster family for the past two months since Olivas, who is eight months pregnant, and Everlyse's father, Ernest Cabrera, went to California to "straighten out their lives," Bedwell said.
The 11-month-old has been removed from custody of the foster parents, Bedwell said. Olivas said he is at Child Haven.
Everlyse and her brother were the first foster children for that foster family, whom police declined to identify. The parents do have two sons of their own, a 34- and 14-year-old, both of whom live in the home.
"We are going under the premise that she is still alive," Bedwell said of Everlyse. "I am sincerely hopeful and the investigators are still hopeful she will be found."
Investigators spent Monday tracking down numerous leads from the public and rehashing all the information they have gathered to this point, Bedwell said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555.
