Ten days after 28-year-old Deborah ‘Bree’ Arthurs vanished without a trace in Belize City, desperate family members and civilian volunteers have returned to the field to expand their search effort, marking the second coordinated organized search for the missing call center worker and single mother.
Arthurs was last seen publicly on Friday, March 27, near La Popular Bakery in central Belize City, where witnesses reported she entered a silver-colored Chevy Equinox. No contact from her has been recorded or received by her loved ones since that sighting.
Over the first 10 days of the disappearance, search teams have combed through multiple regions across the country, including the Hattieville area, the Coastal Road corridor, and Old Well Road in Ladyville. As the days pass without answers, anxiety and urgency among Arthurs’ inner circle have grown, even as the family holds onto cautious optimism.
In a public statement released online this week, a relative of the missing woman shared the heavy toll the uncertainty has placed on the entire family. ‘This ordeal has taken a significant toll on our family, yet we remain hopeful,’ the statement read. The family has doubled down on their appeal for public assistance, raising the reward for information leading to Arthurs’ location to 10,000 Belize dollars.
‘Lead us to her physical being, alive or unalive… Help us bring her home; she has a kid whom she loves dearly. We just need closure,’ the relative added, emphasizing that the reward will be issued for any actionable details that help the family resolve the disappearance.
Local law enforcement and official authorities have not released any new updates on the case during their most recent press briefing, leaving the family and public without new official information about the investigation into Arthurs’ disappearance.