The boyfriend of a teenager who went missing was sacked from his previous job for becoming “increasingly aggressive” and even lied about his relationship with the missing girl, it has emerged.
Alicia Navarro left a note for her parents just days before her 15th birthday before leaving her home near Phoenix, Arizona in September 2019.
She was missing for a total of four years before identifying herself to the police at a station near the Canadian border in Montana in July 2023.
The exact circumstances around her disappearance, including how she ended up in Montana, are still unclear.
Navarro, 18, left again with her boyfriend Eddie Davis, with whom she had been living for a year.
It has been reported she travelled to a Native American reservation with Davis, but Express.co.uk has been unable to corroborate this claim.
Davis, 36, previously worked at a Walmart store stacking shelves before being fired for being aggressive and rude with his colleagues, a former workmate has claimed.
The colleague said: “Within a year or two, his attitude changed at work. He would call younger guys names and stuff. I’m not sure of the names. He was being very aggressive.”
They added that Davis has kept his relationship with Navarro, who is 18 years his junior, a secret from his colleagues, even lying and telling them she was his niece.
On one occasion Davis was invited to a bar by this co-workers who said he would be welcome to bring his girlfriend, which Davis denied.
The colleague said: “Eddie replied, saying it was his niece not his girlfriend, and that she was too young.
”They were using the cover… about it being his niece.”
After Navarro made herself known to police, FBI agents carried out a raid on a Montana property where she had been living.
Locals in Navarro’s neighbourhood said the FBI found her apartment quickly after she identified herself at the police station, before police, armed with rifles and bulletproof vests, entered the property.
One neighbour, Rob Turner, told the New York Post: “Three Havre police [cars] pulled up out of the building and they all got out with guns drawn and went into the apartment.”
Mr Turner continued: “I would say five to 10 minutes later they bring this girl out… They brought this girl out and I told my wife ‘Oh man, that don’t look good. She looks really young’.”
“Little did I know she was legal age but she sure didn’t look it.”
“They [police] were talking to her and they were over there maybe three minutes and she hung her head and covered her face.”
