Sara

Wife: Sara, Age: 28

Missing Husband: Zizo

Location: Los Angeles, California

Sara Married In 2021

Married For Three Years

Husband Disappeared 2024

Sara met her husband, Zizo, at a D.C. nightclub in 2018 while she was in college. It was love at first sight—but little did she know she was stepping into a tumultuous journey with a mysterious and deceitful man. Sparks flew quickly, and he began referring to her as his girlfriend just a week after they met. Everything seemed perfect; they shared a fun and flirtatious relationship, and Sara felt like she had found a quality man with real potential. Zizo, a Muslim, introduced Sara, a Christian, to aspects of his culture and religion, which further deepened their connection. However, six months into their relationship, Zizo began to reveal a darker and more complex side of himself.

Zizo would vanish without explanation for weeks at a time, leaving Sara anxious and desperate for answers. Despite her repeated attempts to contact him—through calls, texts, and even reaching out to his family—he only responded occasionally with brief messages like "I love you." As time went on, these disappearances grew longer, more frequent, and increasingly suspicious. Desperate for answers, Sara turned to social media, where she stumbled across exchanges he had with other women. When she confronted him, Zizo reacted defensively and ultimately broke up with her. Although Sara never found concrete evidence of him cheating, the suspicions lingered.

Devastated but still emotionally tethered to Zizo, Sara turned her focus toward Islam. She began studying the faith and culture, eventually deciding to convert from Christianity to Islam. Her cousin Lauren believes Sara’s conversion was an attempt to feel closer to Zizo. True to his pattern, Zizo re-entered Sara’s life a few months later, apologizing for how things had ended. When Sara shared the news of her conversion, Zizo was overjoyed. This newfound connection was enough for him to propose, and they married in 2021, determined to start fresh.

For a time, the legal commitment of marriage seemed to improve their relationship. However, Zizo soon fell back into his old habits of disappearing and reappearing without explanation. Sara remained committed to the marriage, valuing the importance Islam placed on a wife’s devotion to her husband and the sanctity of their union. While others speculated that Zizo was cheating, Sara believed the truth was more complex. Although she never found solid evidence of infidelity, she suspected that his disappearances often led him back to his enigmatic family.

Zizo’s family, of Egyptian and Nubian descent, spoke a rare dialect that Sara struggled to understand. She never felt fully welcomed by them and remained in the dark about much of their lives. Zizo’s father barely acknowledged her as his son’s wife, and Sara had only a vague understanding that they were part owners of a pizzeria. This lack of transparency deepened Sara’s unease about her husband’s family and their mysterious behavior.

As the marriage progressed, Sara faced mounting challenges. Their apartment’s leasing office claimed they owed $5,200 due to fraudulent rent payments. Zizo, who managed their finances, claimed ignorance, but Sara found his explanations suspicious. Despite borrowing tens of thousands of dollars from her own parents to cover the debt, Zizo never sought financial support from his family. The repeated instances of fraudulent payments left Sara’s finances and credit in ruins.

In April 2024, the situation reached a breaking point. While visiting her mother, Sara and Zizo argued over finances and his disappearing acts. Zizo left abruptly, and that was the last time Sara saw or heard from him. Since then, she has tried every possible avenue to find him. She has called his family’s restaurant in Maryland, reached out through social media, and even checked the photo-sharing website where Zizo occasionally posts pictures. However, his family and friends have remained uncooperative and tight-lipped about his whereabouts.

Sara’s financial and emotional well-being has been deeply affected. She is now burdened with tens of thousands of dollars in debt and struggling to repair her relationship with her parents, who had to dip into their retirement savings to help her. Despite earning a master’s degree in education and psychology, Sara has yet to find stable work in her field and is currently taking odd jobs to make ends meet. She relocated to Los Angeles, seeking distance from the painful memories of Washington, D.C., and Maryland, as well as clarity for her future.

Sara’s cousin Lauren, a fraud expert for a major bank, is convinced Zizo is not who he claims to be. She suspects he may be involved in illegal activities, given his casual use of fraudulent rent payments. Lauren also worries about the long-term implications of Sara’s impulsive decisions, from her conversion to Islam to her marriage to Zizo.

Sara’s ultimate goal is to find Zizo and secure a divorce so she can move forward with her life. She also hopes to hold him accountable and, if possible, recover some of the money to repay her parents. She feels immense guilt over the financial burden she placed on them and is determined to mend their relationship. In the meantime, Sara remains committed to her Muslim faith, despite her mother’s skepticism about her motives. Her mother, a devout Christian, questions whether Sara’s conversion was a genuine act of faith or merely a byproduct of Zizo’s influence. Even without Zizo, Sara has continued to practice Islam and hopes to immerse herself further in the faith, including wearing a hijab.

The unresolved questions about Zizo’s life and his family haunt her. What does his family truly do for work? What have they said about her over the years? If confronted to sit down with him, Sara would ask, “Did Zizo ever truly love her, or was their relationship a facade?” She wants to know why? Why would he leave her like this? Why couldn’t he speak to her? Is he living a double life? And most importantly, will he ever grant her the closure of a divorce? Sara isn’t looking to get back together, she wants to understand why, get a divorce and move in with her life.

Once a vibrant and optimistic woman focused on her education and career, Sara now finds herself isolated and overwhelmed by the fallout of her relationship with Zizo. She knows she cannot move forward until she uncovers the truth about her husband and brings this dark chapter of her life to a close.