More than two weeks af­ter 70-year-old busi­ness­man Der­rick Tardieu was re­leased from kid­nap­pers, the where­abouts of his wife, Clari­bel Tardieu, re­main un­known, with var­i­ous re­sources still as­signed to the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to their ab­duc­tion.

Tardieu was kid­napped at his Blanchette Bay, Monos Is­land, home on the night of De­cem­ber 6, 2025.

Po­lice said a rel­a­tive re­ceived a voice note from a for­eign num­ber that night, in which Tardieu con­firmed be­ing in cap­tiv­i­ty, as his kid­nap­pers de­mand­ed US$2.5 mil­lion for his and his wife’s safe re­lease.