On Friday, around 1:00 p.m., Mendez received a message on his pager from Marchese's cell phone.
There was no text, only her number.
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While optimistic, the family has been cautious, saying that the NYPD told them the page could have been made earlier. Marchese, 35, left for work wearing a pink blouse and black slacks. She's five-six, weighs 130 pounds, has a skin tag on her neck and a small scar under her chin.
MISSING: Chris Colasanti
A bonds broker at Cantor Fitzgerald, Chris Colasanti worked on the 105th floor of tower one. His wife, Kelly, last saw him during breakfast Tuesday morning at 6:50 a.m., and then he left for work. He was wearing a blue shirt, khaki pants, brown belt, shoes, contact lenses, his wedding ring, his work ID card, and a watch with a black band. He has two daughters, Cara, almost five, and Lauren, 21 months old. He's five-eleven, and weighs 172 pounds.
MISSING: Derek Sword
Derek Sword is an equity salesman who worked for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods for six years, on the 105th floor of tower two. His fiancée, Maureen Sullivan, says he called twice on Tuesday morning.
The initial call came directly after the first plane hit tower one. "It wasn't my tower," Maureen recalled him saying. "It's on fire, but I'm safe and everyone's going to be evacuated." After a plane hit his tower, he called again and requested that she call his parents, David and Irene, in native Dundee, Scotland, to let them know he was OK.
He left for work wearing a blue-and-red-checker shirt, khaki pants, a navy blue blazer, Timberland moccasins. Sword, 29, is five-nine, 165 pounds, and has blue eyes and brown hair.
MISSING: Mark Motroni
On Tuesday, Mark Motroni, a 25-year veteran trader, was on the 92nd floor of tower one, for a Carr Futures meeting of 14 people, including neighborhood friend Elkin Yuen, 32, and fellow employees, Pat O' Shea, Mark Petricelli, Eddie Ryan, and Jim Paul.
That morning, Motroni, 57, had given his son Chris a pep talk. He told him to work hard and to tell his mother, Emily, that he would be home for dinner. Motroni has a full moustache and glasses, and left wearing a light blue shirt, black pants, Movado watch, silver bracelet, and a gold chain with a cross. He has a scar that runs from the top of his beltline to his middle abdomen. "It's like the missing remote in front of your face," Chris said last week.
"I don't believe for second he's dead.
There's still people on the lists. We have to find him. I'm expecting for him to come home right now."
MISSING: Joseph Roberto
Joseph Roberto has been a vice president and bank analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods for three years, and was on the 89th floor of tower two on Tuesday morning. Seven minutes before 9:00 a.m., he called his mother, Lucy, out of the blue, just to say hello. After the first explosion, he called again, his voice cracking. He was disoriented and in shock, Lucy remembers.
He told her there were hundreds of people flying out the windows,and she told him to get out of the building. Roberto, 37, left for work in khakis and a long-sleeved shirt. He has a scar from an appendectomy and another on an eyebrow. "We want him home," said his sister, Lorrain Caiazzo. Roberto also has a wife, Janet, and a son, Joseph, one. His father and brother are both named Robert.
MISSING: Sharon Christina Millan
Sharon Christina Millan worked for the human resources department at the law firm Harris Beach & Wilcox on the 85th floor of tower two. Relatives said they've spoken to other employees in her department who reported they were evacuating the building with Millan, heading down the stairs. Some employees' shoes were off, they said, and people were sliding down the banisters. At about the 60th floor, employees heard an announcement over speakers in the building that it was safe to go back to work. Some may have turned around.
"We're not giving up yet," said her sister-in-law, who thinks she might be trapped in a pocket near the shops in the building. Millan is five-six, and weighs 128 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.
MISSING: Giovanna Gambale
Giovanna Gambale worked for Cantor Fitzgerald's online division on the 102nd floor of tower two. Gennie, as she is known to her friends and family, leaves an indelible impression on everyone she meets. "She's everything you would want in a child—a responsible, wonderful kid," her father said. Gambale, 27, grew up with her younger sister and brother in Carrol Gardens, Brooklyn, and stayed in the neighborhood.
MISSING: Anette Dataram
Before leaving for work last Monday, Anette Dataram, 25, assembled her best outfit and paraded around the house, hoping her family would notice her new haircut. "She looked so pretty that day and we all wanted to know why she cut her hair," said her aunt, who thinks of Dataram as her own daughter. "Oh, I just want to look nice," Dataram said, who is engaged to get married this month. Petite in stature at five-three and only 90 pounds, Dataram's spirit that day appeared to be as lofty as her office on the 106th floor of tower one, where the Guyana native worked as an accountant for Windows on the World.
Reports contributed by Gregory Bensinger, Robert Christgau, Thulani Davis, Sarah Ferguson, Joey Fishkin, Chris Fuchs, Andrew Friedman, Camila Gamboa, Geoffrey Gray, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Humm, Adamma Ince, Nora McCarthy, Toni Schlesinger, Lisa Schneider, Alisa Solomon, Alexis Sottile, Tricia Romano, Bill Werde, and Irene Yadao
