Jul 10, 2009 6:07 am US/Eastern
Woman Vanishes At Skyscraper Near Ground Zero
Mother Of 3 Eridania Rodriguez Went To Work At Office Tower And Disappeared Midway Through Her Shift
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
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Police are trying to figure out what happened to cleaning woman Eridania Rodriguez, who vanished midway through her shift Tuesday evening at an office tower a few hundred feet from the World Trade Center reconstruction site.
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The family of a missing mother was holding out hope Thursday night.
The woman went to work inside an office tower in the financial district but never came home.
Outside an Inwood apartment on Thursday night a sign read in part "please help find my mother; she didn't deserve this." Meanwhile, in lower Manhattan, cleaning crews went about their business, fully aware one of their own is still missing and possibly dead.
"She was a very nice lady. Sweet. I don't know what to say," said Lula Ulaj, the victim's co-worker.
"You know it's a shock, shock for us. We don't know what happened."
As investigators reviewed every surveillance camera, employees talked about their place of business now inundated with police.
"It was a little strange to hear the building declared a crime scene," employee Joe Gingalli said.
Police dogs went floor to floor searching for Eradania Rodriguez, a cleaning lady last seen on the job here Tuesday night. Her clothes, ID, and purse have all been found, but not her body.
"Trying to stay strong but really hurting," daughter Yaniris Figueroa said.
Figueroa told CBS 2 HD how just last month, a co-worker recently made the mother of four uneasy.
"He was working there on those floors, so the floor my mother was working, he was there. He used to stare at her; she was uncomfortable," Figueroa said.
The co-worker was removed but apparently not permanently.
"My mom told me and my sister she saw him last week, so I think that he has something to do with it," Figueroa said.
So do police, which is why they questioned the co-worker at the 1st Precinct. However, after he got a lawyer, he was let go.
"She was nice, did a good job," building employee Lisa Lentz said of the victim.
Lentz said she used to see Rodriguez clean her office and feels foul play is the only possibility.
"She didn't seem like a woman who would run off, try and get away you know? Definitely not that kind of person," Lentz said.
Anyone with information regarding this case can call Crime Stoppers and remain anonymous at 1-800-577-TIPS.
Stay with WCBSTV.com and CBS 2 HD for more on this developing story.
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