WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — Wyoming police say they suspect foul play in the case of a missing mother of three and her ex-boyfriend is a suspect in her disappearance.
An undated courtesy photo of Ana Marie Carrillo. (Wyoming Department of Public Safety)
In a Monday afternoon news release, the Wyoming Department of Public Safety said Andrew Hudson, 38, was one of the last known people to speak with 35-year-old Ana Marie Carrillo. They identified him as a suspect in her disappearance “based upon the results of the investigation so far.”
Carrillo has been missing since the morning of Sept. 3. Family members say she set out to pick up her kids from their father’s home — who is also her ex-boyfriend — and then lost all contact with her loved ones. Carrillo’s car, a red Chevrolet Impala, was found abandoned in the St. John Vianney church parking lot, less than a mile from Hudson’s home. The keys were still inside the vehicle.
Police said they began treating Carrillo’s disappearance as a potential criminal investigation almost immediately after she was reported missing.
Monday morning, Hudson was arraigned on a misdemeanor charge of lying to police in the investigation. Those with knowledge of the case say the charge came after he lied about where Carrillo’s kids were the morning she disappeared.
Carrillo’s roommate told 24 Hour News 8 that Hudson was telling Carrillo to pick up the children at his home that morning, but the family has suspected that the children weren’t there — that the kids were instead in another county with their grandmother, Hudson’s mother.
Carrillo’s family learned that Hudson is a suspect in the case as they watched WOOD TV8 at 5 p.m. Monday.
Family members said Hudson had been violent toward Carrillo in the past. But her sister, Melinda Gomez, and cousin, Monica Martinez, say that in the days leading up to her disappearance, Carrillo didn’t say anything that would have made them think she was feeling unsafe with Hudson.
“She said that we had nothing to worry about, that she had it under control, that she was fine,” Gomez said.
But Gomez and Martinez say the last time they saw Carrillo, things didn’t go well.
“Our last meeting was together with her and it was to talk about them and the situation with the kids and she kind of walked away a little upset at us,” Martinez said.
24 Hour News 8 interviewed the two at a search party meeting in Wyoming Monday evening. They were planning a search in a Newaygo area where they say Hudson often went camping. A search party plans to leave at 9 a.m. Tuesday for the Newaygo area. Several teams will look around the area throughout the day.
“So you know what this means: We got to boot up, we’ve got to hoodie up, and it’s going to be tiring because we’re walking miles,” Monica Martinez’s husband, Ruben Martinez, told searchers Monday.
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