Cold Case Files: Husband returned home from work in May of 2019 to find wife and all her belongings gone from residence
On the evening of May 9, 2019, Juana Marie Martenez-Salinas’s husband came home from work to their house in Muskogee
and found her gone. A note sat waiting. She was leaving. The note gave no destination and offered no further explanation. Every belonging she owned had been cleared out of the home. Her car remained parked where she had left it. That was the last anyone has reported hearing from her.
Juana was 25 years old that spring. Born February 17, 1994, she stood between 5 feet 3 inches and 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed roughly 100 to 110 pounds. She was Latina, with black hair and brown eyes. Some records note that her surname has also appeared spelled as Martinez-Solinas.
Before that day, Juana had been struggling with methamphetamine addiction for some time. In 2018, she faced a felony child neglect charge after doctors determined she had smoked meth three days before her newborn son was born. The details of that case, the outcome of the charge, and the status of the child remain outside the public record of her disappearance.
What is known is that the addiction was part of the circumstances surrounding her life when she vanished.
The husband’s account forms the core of the known facts. He returned from work to an emptied house and the note. No one has publicly reported seeing Juana afterward. Advocacy sites that track long-term missing persons cases, including the Charley Project and Uncovered, carry essentially the same summary: belongings removed, vehicle left behind, note that said she was leaving, no further contact.
No photographs beyond a single circa-2019 image, no last-known clothing description, no reported sightings, and no recovered remains appear in the publicly accessible case files.
More than seven years have passed. Muskogee, a city of roughly 37,000 along the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, continues to generate ordinary missing-person reports involving adults and juveniles alike. Some resolve quickly. Others, like Juana’s, settle into the long quiet of an open file.
Local news coverage of her case has not surfaced in searchable records. Court dockets that are publicly indexed do not yield an obvious matching entry under the various spellings of her name for the 2018 neglect charge or for any subsequent proceedings tied to her disappearance.
Authorities list her in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System under case number MP75501. The Muskogee Police Department continues to handle the investigation and can be reached at 918-683-8000.
The thin paper trail leaves the central questions unanswered: whether she left on her own as the note indicated, whether the addiction and the pending legal matters pushed her to disappear, or whether something else intervened after she wrote those words and gathered her things.
