Justice · Mistaken identificationTijuana woman found: Arizona investigators reject Shayna Feinman identificationAired October 28, 2026 at 2:30 AM UTCWritten October 28, 2026 at 2:36 AM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:07Arizona investigators have ruled out the woman identified as Shana Feynman in0:10Tijuana.0:11Feynman remains missing more than two years after her disappearance.0:14Two men were charged in her presumed killing in2020 .4.0:18What does the mistaken identification change for the search and the two criminal0:21cases?0:22Tijuana's municipal public security agency identified a woman encountered in the0:26city's Encino neighborhood as Feynman.0:28That identification set off claims that the missing Arizona woman had been found0:32alive in Mexico.0:33Mexican authorities dated the encounter to October23 .0:36The identification became public by October24 .0:39By October26 , Feynman's family and Arizona deputies had questioned it.0:43On October27 , the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office rejected it.0:47The sheriff's office said U.S.0:48authorities had determined the woman was someone else.0:50Physical evidence helped them reach that conclusion.0:53Although the type of evidence wasn't specified, the correction leaves Feynman's0:57disappearance unresolved.0:58Arizona deputies had already warned that the recovery claim lacked official law,1:02enforcement confirmation.1:04Their later conclusion went further.1:05They ruled out the woman in Mexico, removing the apparent breakthrough in the1:09search.1:09The reversal came within the same morning.1:11Tijuana's identification had offered an apparent answer after years of uncertainty.1:15Arizona investigators then rejected the identification, and the search for Feynman1:19continued.1:20Feynman disappeared in March2020, four between Peach Springs and Seligman in1:24northwestern Arizona.1:26She was thirty-five then.1:27The Tijuana encounter gives investigators no confirmed location for her since that1:31disappearance.1:32The precise March day is less clear.1:34March eight and March9 have both been given as last scene dates.1:37While March nine has also been described as the missing person report date, being1:42last seen and being reported missing can happen on different days.1:45William Dal Ciro and Cavot Richards were charged in connection with Feynman's1:48presumed killing in two thousand and twenty-four.1:50The charges involve second degree murder and concealment of a dead body.1:54Dal Harrow was described as fifty-eight then, and Richards as thirty-six.1:58The men were charged on August twenty-eight, two thousand twenty-four, and the2:02public announcement followed on August twenty-nine.2:04Both appeared virtually in Yavapai County Court that October fourteenth.2:07Those proceedings concerned allegations and charges don't prove guilt.2:11The continuing search led to a reward increase to twenty dollars zero reported on2:15April thirty, two thousand and twenty-six.2:18That figure belongs to the search effort at that time.2:20The reward available today hasn't been confirmed.2:23The current status of either man's charges is still unclear.2:26The mistaken identification supplies no basis to declare either man cleared, and its2:31rejection doesn't determine guilt.2:32Feynman remains missing, with no resolution for her family.2:36Investigators also haven't explained how Tijuana police made the identification2:39error.2:40The immediate recovery claim has been settled.2:42Where Feynman is and what happened to her are still unknown.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSS
