Bronx woman missing over weekend, NYPD says

BRONX, N.Y. (WABC) -- Police are looking for a woman who was reported missing over the weekend.

Diana Perez, 42, of the Bronx, was last seen at 8 a.m. Sunday. She is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 110 pounds; she has brown eyes and red hair.

Perez was last seen wearing blue jeans and a white tank top.

"We just want her home safe. Her son needs her," Perez's sister said.

Relatives of Diana Perez are just hoping for a shred of information. They're hoping someone who has a heart will speak up.

The 42-year-old mother from the Bronx was last seen Sunday, on White Plains Road in Parkchester, when she left at 8 a.m. to walk her dog.

Hours later and 3 and a half miles away, on Bruckner Boulevard, police say her dog was found tied to a stand pipe, but there was no sign of Perez.

Now the dog, "Snow White", seems injured they say and is reluctant to even walk.

No one else in this mostly industrial neighborhood along Bruckner Boulevard has answered the troubling questions surrounding her disappearance.

"I just want to know where she was at. I just want to know what she was doing over here," said Manny Perez, the missing woman's friend.

There fear is she was taken there by someone who studied her routine with the dog.

"That's my wife. She does her normal routine of walking the dog every day at 8 o'clock in the morning. If someone was watching her, and watching her movements, it's a possibility," said Carlos Perez, the missing woman's husband.

And if that's the case, they want the person responsible to understand Perez has a 14-year-old boy.

They say she was such an involved mother, excited about her son's prom and so much more.

"She wouldn't miss his graduation. You know, he graduates tomorrow," Perez said.

They've now blanketed the neighborhood with flyers. The NYPD is urging anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call 800-577-TIPS.