Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Border Arrest Nightmare: Single Mom Arrested at the Border
14 Jan 2025
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I learned at a young age that if I say the right things and I do the right things, then I can get away with things. When I was first getting loaded, like I would start to escort, right? Like that was the perfect way for me to figure out how to make money. I remember looking down at the... Right. And I just thought like, wow.
And I got these butterflies, you know, and up to this point, I was very anti doing anything like that. And I just remember getting these butterflies and I look down again and I'm like, man, I don't think that's going to be enough for tonight. My first instinct is to get loaded and then to be a mom. Like it's it's always been wired that way.
And I was presented with an opportunity, an opportunity to go down to Mexico to make some money if I were was willing to transport some drugs back. 12 o'clock at night and she gets a phone call that like her daughter's just been arrested. And she has to come get her grandkids from Mexico. Like, I'm going to go back to Mexico. Like, I'm going to cross the border. Like, my kids are OK.
I'm across the border. I'm going to find somebody who has a . I'm going to kill somebody.
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So let's go ahead and just kind of start from, you know, the beginning, which is like, you know, like where were you born brothers, sisters, you know, parents, were they in the picture or that sort of thing?
OK, yeah, I was born in Phoenix, Arizona. I've been out here. I'm still in Arizona my whole life. My parents were both born out here. My kids were born out here. So I have three generations worth of people living in Arizona. I have one sister who's about seven years younger than I am. So I started my addiction journey much sooner than she did. But we're both in recovery. and are sober today.
But, you know, I grew up with both my parents in the household. Um, the, the house was, I mean, my house was loving, you know, like I knew my parents loved me and I knew that they could provide well for me. And, um, there just wasn't like connection, you know, there wasn't a lot of emotional connection going on in my household.
And for me, it was a really challenging thing as an adult to start then forming those connections with people, especially even after having kids. It was this cycle that I had to consciously break. Autism runs in my family and I'm, I'm 100% sure my dad's just undiagnosed on the autism spectrum. So as much as he was able to provide and he was a good provider, he just emotionally wasn't available.
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