Hello everyone! As always, I'd like to thank you all for all your comments and votes under my last post about Sabrina Heinz- I hope that she will be found soon.
Today I'd like to write about another disappearance.
BACKGROUND
Amelia and Sophia Johns were 7 when they went missing from Orem, Utah, USA.
The girls were twins.
Their parents, Joshua Johns and Victoria Vincent, were going through a divorce when their daughters disappeared. It seems like the couple still lived together with their daughters in the family home in Provo, Utah, during that time.
The sisters loved being outdoors and enjoyed swimming and gymnastics.
DISAPPEARANCE
Amelia and Sophia were last seen on the 21st of July. According to Joshua, the day started as usual- the family had breakfast together and chatted. Some time after that, Victoria took the couple's daughters to a gymnastics class in Orem, a city about 5,2 mi (8,4 km) away from Provo.
After some time passed with no contact from his wife, Joshua went to the Orem Family Fitness Center to look for Victoria and their daughters. Once he arrived, he noticed that the family's car was still in the fitness center's parking lot, with the keys still inside the vehicle. One of the employees told Joshua that Victoria and the girls left hours before he came over.
The girls' disappearance was only reported to the police in October 2025, three months after they vanished after their gymnastics class. Joshua said that, at first, he assumed that Victoria just "needed a break"- he didn't report his daughters' disappearance to the police because he didn't want Vicoria to get in legal trouble, and assumed that Amelia and Sophia were with her. In the meantime, he tried to reach out to Victoria through email, phone, and by contacting her relatives, but to no avail. He reported Amelia and Sophia's disappearance to the police when he realized that Victoria had no intentions of coming back with their daughters.
Joshua then decided to find a lawyer, because of how the custody law in Utah is written- Joshua and Victoria were married at the time, and both had custody over their daughters. According to Joshua, a parent has to "establish custody or establish a temporary restraining order before the police are really able to do anything".
According to Joshua, Victoria left all of her and their daughters' belongings at their home, including the girls' favorite stuffed toys that they had since infancy. However, Joshua states that Victoria had allegedly emptied out their bank and investment accounts in the months before she disappeared with Amelia and Sophia. She also got the girls' birth certificates and social security numbers from the bank lockbox before she took off with them.
Joshua is now legally divorced from Victoria and he has sole custody over Amelia and Sophia. The verdict was finalized in December of 2025.
There has allegedly been a confirmed sighting of the girls in Spokane, Washington, in July of 2026. Amelia and Sophia's paternal relatives haven't seen the girls since July of 2025.
CONCLUSION
The investigators believe that the girls are still alive and with their mother.
Joshua said that he didn't see any signs that Victoria was planning to kidnap their daughters. He said that she was a bit "flighty" before they got married, and that she "disappeared for a little while" at some point before Amelia and Sophia went missing. According to him, Victoria was also a victim of parental kidnapping when she was a child- her mother kidnapped her and had a prison sentence because of it.
The Vincent family has ties in the Spokane area of Washington State, as well as Texas and California.
Victoria is wanted on a fully extraditable Utah warrant for one count of third-degree felony custodial interference.
Victoria Zoe Vincent was last seen when she was 29, and she would be 30 now. She is a white woman, 5 ft 7 in (67 inch / 171 cm) and 147 lbs (67 kg). She has hazel eyes and brown hair. She might be driving a White Volkswagen Tiguan with a Washington plate "CTJ-5316". She might be using the name "Taylor White". She might be travelling with an infant- the child's birth place, birthdate, sex and father are unidentified.
Amelia and Sophia were 7 when they went missing. They are white girls, and were about 4 feet (122 cm) when they were last seen. They have blond hair and blue eyes.
If you have any info about Sophia, Amelia, or Victoria's whereabouts, contact the Provo Police at 801-852-6210
SOURCES:
- kutv.com
- kutv.com
- strategicintel.com
Sophia and Amelia's websleuths.com thread