Dave Mack

Oh...

You know, Joe, asking me a question like that, you ought to know better.

I'm not the gardener.

I'm the guy that tips the gardener.

You can get lost out there.

And that's what Karen Paez did.

She worked in the yard, not just the flowers, but the yard.

I mean, the grass, the edging, every aspect of her yard was important to her.

And living in Florida, she spent a lot of time working in the yard.

But let me give you a little background on Karen, Joe, because Karen Paez was known by neighbors as very friendly.

Friendly, loving, just a wonderful, nice person.

They knew her as the person working in the yard when they didn't see her in the yard for a couple of days and couldn't get her on the phone.

They knew something was wrong.

So they called their friends, called police to do a welfare check.

Hey, man, just go check on our friend.

Now, when police show up, I'm going to give you the backstory in just a minute, OK, because there's so much fun.

There is so much more to this.

The friends didn't just make one phone call, okay?

But to cut to the nitty gritty.

Police show up to do a welfare check.