John Quinones

Great to be here, Deb.

Thank you.

find answers i mean this one really i think just kind of gets at you and and pulls at the heartstrings what about you when you set out to start looking into the story of course you know you our daughters uh are precious i only have one daughter two boys and her andrea and uh i worry about her all the time and she's now you know 30 years old and i still

worry about her.

So yeah, it touched home.

And this was a woman from Mexico.

I did the interview in Spanish with Maria, Susana's mother.

And it was incredibly touching.

Yeah.

And it hit home.

She was a teen.

She was a teenage girl.

And it all started off that night, Deb, quite innocently enough.

Susanna didn't want to eat fish, which her mother had cooked for dinner that night for the family.

So she asked her mom if she could instead go to her friend's house.

You mentioned Esmeralda.

She lived just a few blocks away.

And the mom said, OK.

But then it gets late into the night when she doesn't come home.

Her mother calls the friend, Esmeralda, and she covers for Susanna.