Ash Kelley

Spring break scares the shit out of me.

I never was allowed to go on spring break.

I never was either.

And I will not allow my children to go on spring break.

And I know that there's like all these things that you say before you have kids that you're not.

You're like, I'm not going to do this and I'm not going to do that.

That's one I know I will be standing 10 toes down on.

As someone with kids, no, I'm not either.

It's just not happening.

We can take a family vacation.

So while the police took the report seriously, they still were confident that he would show back up soon.

Yeah, they probably thought he was, like, drunk and, like, passed out somewhere.

Exactly.

Yeah.

But when Mark's friends mentioned Mexico, the detectives did become somewhat more concerned.

Author Jim Schutz, and we will link his book in the show notes, he said, No matter how casually the kids themselves took this business of crossing into Mexico to raise hell, no one in law enforcement in South Texas took Mexico cases lightly.

Hmm.

Because you're in a completely different jurisdiction.

Yeah, of course.

A completely different area.