Madalina Cojocari cops give new update 2 years after 11-year-old girl’s mystery disappearance & months after mom fled US
On the second anniversary of the child’s disappearance following her mother’s departure from the country, MADALINA Cojocari police have provided a fresh update.
On November 21, 2022, the 11-year-old schoolgirl went missing after getting off her school bus.
According to reports, in September of this year, Diana Cojocari, her mother, departed the United States for either Romania or her hometown of Moldova.
When Madalina was last seen, she gave police in Cornelius, North Carolina, inconsistent dates.
At the beginning of Thanksgiving break, the young girl was last seen on security tape stepping off a school bus close to her house in Mecklenburg County, which is outside of Charlotte.
Two years after her disappearance, authorities have now provided an update.
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“The Cornelius Police Department has been actively investigating her disappearance for nearly two years,” Cornelius Chief of Police David Baucom told The U.S. Sun.
“CPD is committed to finding Madalina and our investigation will continue until she is found.”
The force “continues to work with our law enforcement partners at the FBI and NCSBI, and we still have Detectives assigned to the case,” Chief Baucom continued.
He went on: “Our inquiry is still ongoing even though Diana Cojocari has returned to her native Moldova.
“CPD asks anyone with information to please call the Cornelius Police Department,” the statement said at the end.
Due to their failure to declare Madalina missing, Diana Cojocari and her stepfather, Christopher Palmiter, have both served jail sentences.
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Both of them have denied knowing Madalina’s location.
Diana Cojocari was first publicly identified as a suspect by the Cornelius Police Department in a July social media post.
Madalina’s mother made a Facebook post a few days before to the police statement, seemingly indicating that she was leaving the country.
A purported Facebook photo of Diana Cojocari traveling with her mother to Eastern Europe was discovered on July 6 by the Where is Madalina Cojocari? Facebook page.
According to the post, she was taking a plane to Germany before continuing on to Bucharest, the capital of Romania, which shares a border with Moldova.
The caption read, “On the way from New York JFK to Frankfurt then to Bucharest,” and included a photo she took while flying.
“After nine years of absence from the country.”
Additionally, she posted an image of a poem titled “The Echo.”
The poem talks about a daughter who is trying to find her mother.
The poem asks, “I’m calling my mother, you echo, who are you calling?”
Timeline of Madalina Cojocari’s disappearance
When Madalina, 13, failed to show up for class in November 2022, her school became concerned and she went missing. After 21 days of waiting to report her missing, her parents were finally taken into custody.
- November 21, 2022 – Madalina, then 11 years old, is seen in surveillance footage getting off her school bus in her last confirmed sighting.
- November 23, 2022 – The day Madalina’s mother, Diana Cojocari, claims she last saw her daughter. She said she put her to bed and she vanished the next morning.
- November 26, 2022 – Diana confronts her husband, Chris Palmiter, when he returns from an out-of-town trip and asks if he knows where Madalina was. Both parents say they hadn’t seen her.
- December 2, 2022 – Diana tells someone in a text message that she is with Madalina.
- December 12, 2022 – A counselor from Bailey Middle School visits the Cojocari household after Madalina didn’t show up for class since November 21. No one answers the door.
- December 15, 2022 – Diana comes to the school without Madalina and tells officials her daughter has been missing since November 23. This is 21 days after she allegedly last saw her daughter.
- December 17, 2022 – Madalina’s mom and stepdad Chris Palmiter are arrested on Failure to Report a Child Disappearance charges.
- May 21, 2024 – Diana is released from jail after changing her plea to guilty.
- May 24, 2024 – The trial for Chris Palmiter begins.
- May 31, 2024 – Palmiter was found guilty of failing to report Madalina missing.
- June 25, 2024 – Diana Cojocari has been named a suspect in Madalina’s disappearance.
Police cannot legally stop her from leaving the country because she is merely a suspect and has not been charged.
After reportedly leaving the US, Madalina’s mother posted pictures from her new life that same month.
In one picture, Diana is smiling at the camera while clutching a big sunflower.
Reading the caption, “Daddy’s Lui garden…”
The mother was seen standing in front of a lake in another photo, sporting sunglasses.
Diana also shared a number of pictures of lakes, landscapes, and sunsets.
The caption stated, “Si asta e Romania,” which roughly translates to, “And this is Romania.”
According to a post, other images seem to be close-ups of flowers that might be in her father’s garden.
Although the exact date of Diana Cojocari’s departure from the United States is unknown, Homeland Security Investigations confirmed her departure in September.
After waiting three weeks, Madalina’s parents finally filed a missing person’s report.
Since the maximum jail term was 24 months, Diana was freed in May.
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She had been arrested in December 2022 and had already been incarcerated for 520 days at that point.
The reward for Madalina’s disappearance is still $2,500.
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