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TUCSON, Ariz. — The kidnapping of six year old Isabel Celis was a cold case—a painful mystery that went five years without answers. It took hard work and cooperation from prosecutors and police to convince a jury Christopher Clements was the killer. Homicide detectives will always have a new case to solve but the team that solved this case took time to talk with KGUN9.
Detective Jeff Lockwood says, “In terms of the difficulty of the cases that I've investigated, this ranks up there, it's one of the one of the most difficult ones. You know, we worked it for a year and a half, pretty much straight.” When someone kidnapped six year old Isabel Celis out of her family’s home it made people ask if your child can’t be safe in your home, where can anyone be safe?Cheek says, “I would describe him as, he's devious, calculating. I don't know that I've ever come across anybody like him in the 24-some years that I've been doing this job.”It’s still a mystery exactly how Clements removed the young girl, without alerting Isabel’s father, mother, two brothers and several dogs.
Detective Cheek says only Clements knew where Isabel was because he put her in that remote piece of desert.
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