A Utah woman’s disappearance from a California beach earlier this month has prompted her boyfriend to break his silence, pleading for the public’s help in a case police suspect may involve “foul play.”

Authorities report that 35-year-old Danielle Staley was last spotted at a bonfire on Rio Del Mar State Beach near Aptos on the night of November 6, around 11:30 p.m. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office has since revealed new developments suggesting Staley could be in danger and that foul play might be a factor.

In a heartfelt interview with KSBW, her boyfriend, Alx Nunez, expressed his determination to find her. “I won’t stop until she’s found. I’m staying right here,” he declared, expressing gratitude for the community’s efforts. Nunez urged anyone with information to step forward, emphasizing the detectives’ commitment to solving the case.

He also asserted, “As God is my witness, I had nothing to do with it.”

(Photo caption: A woman walks along Rio Del Mar State Beach, with storm debris visible after a severe weather event hit California’s Central Coast in Aptos on January 9, 2023. Photo credit: Melina Mara, The Washington Post via Getty Images)

West said Staley is from Holladay, Utah — a city outside Salt Lake City — and that her boyfriend has been cooperating with the investigation. Staley, he said, was “in the company of an unknown group of people” around a bonfire at the time of her disappearance.

“Over this past weekend, some of Ms. Staley’s family members arrived in Santa Cruz County to assist in the investigative search efforts,” West also told Fox News Digital. “Community members have continued to report possible sightings and have provided video surveillance to assist with possible leads.” 

Rio Del Mar State Beach in California. A Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson told KTVU, “Staley’s personal belongings were found on the beach.” (Google Maps)

Nunez said he did not attend the bonfire on the night of Staley’s disappearance and instead fell asleep in the camper van they were traveling in. The van is still being searched by police for evidence, according to KSBW.  

“And when I woke up, she wasn’t there, so I’m saying there’s cameras there, there’s a whole private subdivision that isn’t nothing but cameras, and there has to be some video surveillance of something cars going in and out between about 11 o’clock and six in the morning,” the station quoted him as saying.