On the evening of October 17, 2016, 16-year-old Enrique Rios disappeared after saying goodnight to his mom. The following morning, his mom received texts from his phone that she didn't think sounded like her son. Law enforcement initially suspected that Enrique had run away but then Enrique's friend disappeared too. 17-year-old Elijah Moore was last seen cashing his check on November 4, 2016. Their families always suspected that their disappearances were connected and that the boys hadn't run off.
Since they have been missing, many rumors had been going around. All of the rumors kept pointing at the same people. Back in June, 4 men were arrested and charged with their murders.
Enrique's mom, Lola, joined me to discuss these devastating developments.
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Sixteen. What did I ever deserve
I mean when I had him. I was sixteen in his
was ended when he was sixteen it on everybody system,
in sweden, but what would be the reason that my son was taken so young
there's no. There is no justification for it at all
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Sixteen year old, Enrique rios, disappeared on the evening of october, seventeenth, two thousand and sixteen
that evening, he said goodnight to his mom and later snuck out of his home in spider, California, to go meet with some friends.
the following morning? His mom receive text messages from enrique. They didn't sound like they were written by him,
Enrique was initially soon to be a runaway. But then something strange happened his friend
in classmate seventeen year old Elijah Moore disappeared just a little over two weeks later on november. Fourth, two thousand and sixteen there
These believed that the two cases had to be connected, and they also
EL, as their sons wouldn't have just run away on
eleventh, two thousand and eighteen, the news
there was finally arrests for the murders of rigour and eliza. Any hope that
and his head of seeing a boy's return of life was now gone, but they had been
all along their cases, were connected
Would allegedly happened to enrique and eliza is more horrific than any of us could have imagined
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october, twenty fifth two thousand sixteen I was caught
to by a listener, about a teenager who had just gone missing eight days earlier,
He was looking for advice because he was friends but the family and they were having trouble getting help the poor,
These were labeling this missing teen as run away and not investigating his disappearance.
a teenager was enrique rio's.
I offered to cover enrique, but I had other episodes in the works I couldn't get to it immediately. Then, just
few weeks later, I got another email stating that one of enrique friends, Elijah more, had gone missing too.
I felt a sense of urgency to help in any way that I could and I fit their stories in as soon as possible. I spoke to,
both of their mothers who are desperate to find their sons
they felt ass, though something was seriously wrong. There boy,
wouldn't have just run away, but they didn't feel like
law enforcement was treating their cases with any sense of urgency.
I followed their cases ever since that time,
since the first episode aired. I've been hearing, rumours that all sounded similar and certain names were consistently coming out, but
As with every case, there's always rumours and you just never know if there's any truth to those rumours, even
please police, assume the boys had run away. They were hearing these stories to and they had access to some evidence that the public couldn't see. They begin,
the piece together what happened to Enrique rios and eliza more back in june,
women were charged with the kidnapping and murders of enrique and malaysia. These four men.
or a ten year old, hasten campos, twenty one year old, chantelle, shannon and brothers. Twenty eight year old, david frost and twenty one year old, Jonathan frost, who also goes by J,
story that emerged fit with the rumours that we have all heard, but was far worse,
as I was watching these developments unfold. Each bit of information that was released seem more devastating than last. I was
broken for their families, because I knew they'd be hearing these things to the sea.
Rates of enrique and Elijah's final moments are something that no mother should ever have to hear about their child
Both he and chando have spoken about the murders, while the frost brothers have maintained their silence
the story of how this all unfolded goes back to shortly before enrique, disappeared,
is when the men claim that eliza rob chando and david of three hundred dollars worth of marijuana at gunpoint. Appearance,
David was so angry over this and set on revenge that they drove around looking for eliza, but they couldn't find him. That's when he
I'm up with another plan
they knew that eliza was friends with Enrique
so they sent enrique message using facebook. Messenger pretending like they wanted to go hang out in red
told them to pick him up at her friends house near by
his friends enrique getting into a green honda that matched the description of chanel's car data.
from David, hey, Susan chandos phone support, this time line of events, but shortly after they picked enrique up the
location, tracking feature on all three funds was shut off. They stopped
a spot along the Sacramento river and nights landing called second beach. This is where
David shot his gun into the air and made enrique exit the vehicle. They too,
to get in regard to lure eliza, but he refused enrique.
even offered to pay for the marijuana that was allegedly taken David, ordered enrique to go down to the water and take us close off.
this is where he allegedly shot enrique
according to chando when he stopped reload. His gun enrique asked him to just ended.
After killing, enrique the three went out to eat at a dennys, and then David borrowed a truck from his neighbour
according to the neighbour David, came to his home in the middle of the night, asking to borrow the truck saying that his brothers car was stuck somewhere and then he needed the tree
to pull him out David Lee,
returned the truck, but came back several days later to clean it.
You may be wondering where the second frost brother comes in Jonathan or J
They could see from his cell phone records that his phone was at his girlfriends house for much of the night
but around the same time that the truck was borrowed. His phone was near a field in nights landing fast
but a couple weeks until november. Fourth, two thousand sixteen.
eliza finish school that day and went to cash, is checked that he received from his school work programme.
He was last seen on surveillance, footage there and his mom didn't think that he appeared to be under duress.
around the time that eliza was last seen, cashing is check.
again using data from their phones. Investigators placed the frost brothers at a nearby shopping, mall
and he soon has admitted that he was with them driving around when they saw eliza walking
they pulled over, and the story is that David frost got out and threatened eliza with a pair of scissors. He made him
Take off his clothes and get into the trunk of the car
eliza was then taken to an area of knights landing called the cuts.
This is where he was hit over the head with a tree branch and then shot
according to hand out both enrique eliza were burned and buried in three foot graves haste:
offered to take the police to the bodies, but was unable to find the area where he claims they were buried, apparent
these guys have been on the radar since very early on in the investigation
back on December six, two thousand and sixteen and anonymous collar named hey seuss.
Call was traced back to local library. This is when the
least began connecting the four they
David frost on unrelated charges back in january of two thousand seventeen once you
incarcerated, they were monitoring his communication, while he
outwardly admit to his role in the murders. He hinted to his brother about it and told him to make sure that the other two didn't talk.
from what we know now it appears that David was the ringleader and another.
Brother of his, not the one who is involved with the murders, has spoken to the media, about how David always seem to be filled with rage and had a history of mutilating animals. Right now
all four men are awaiting trial. There
we'll things that are holding up the process, the fur
is a hasty was a minor back in two thousand sixteen when the crimes occurred, but they would like to try him as an adult the true
as for of his case is currently pending shit.
else attorney is now questioning his competency, stating
he's been diagnosed with a high functioning form of autism, the defendant.
Have all pleaded not guilty. Several
once before the arrests were made,
gazed. Mom lower was diagnosed with cancer
This is something that she didn't want to talk about publicly
she didn't wanna take the focus of the boys.
She told me this awhile back before she was ready to speak about it more
Recently, her friends and family urged her to go public with her story,
right now she splitting your time between various court proceedings and her cancer treatments. I said
with all the other day to bring you an update on this case? She don't.
about getting the phone call letting her know about the arrests
didn't tell me anything, but
since? I am going to chemo and everything I was in the hospital for today, because I had them
Then called nature: peanut fever in my white blood cell, countless super low, so them
it all and the detectives called me, and they just told me that they wanted to. Let me know before I thought on the new:
But they had made arrests of before individuals, David Jonathan, his brother,
John doe, and pursue an eye
started crying, and I said obviously you have something: that's why
arresting them correct, and
did the cat pulled me. That was true, but he didn't tell me what they found her.
like that.
As I mentioned, the families had been hearing rumours all along
but they didn't have any solid information to back up these rumours we kept hearing
rumours and we kept telling the police
and I dont know what they would do with the name that we gave them or or how they started their investigation, but at least
did hearing rumours of name than it was then the same for over and over, but we told them effectively and obviously they were.
doing their own investigation. I don't know cause they don't
they tell us a lot of anything because you don't wanna, make those people
Let's go on IRAN or say you know older for investigating us, but they
They were doing their own investigation and me those names just kept.
An up and they were. They started tipping
phones- and they had told me at first that they were unable to ping my son phone.
but now I'm learning to do whatever they were thing at court is that they were able to king and weakest farm. Here
in town, and then they are painted out in nights landing like we had all
I heard the rumours about nights landing so
whatever the rumors were. It wasn't just rumours it with somebody that had said something, a lot of half the truth to it,
Then, of course, I dont believe everything that
but the murderers are saying, but they're they're trying to put the blame on
on eliza, and how are we to believe what they're saying you know? How are we gonna believe for people that held the secret of what they do?
for almost two years, just because they're trying to make it
hey for what they did, I don't believe that
a
robbed them at gunpoint for this and that they're just trying to make whatever they did they're trying to justify.
At night and then they're saying that, or one of them said that they
pull the knife or figures
something on eliza, that's how they got him alive,
I met him. He was really com super strong. This kid would was built. You know
He wasn't someone that could just be overcome.
bored with feathers
or a knife he would have put off
meaning he would have. You could work together. They had to have
got him at gunpoint or something where
don't believe the scissor in the knife story that they're that these people are saying
He susan shadow, the two that have been talking, many believe
they're trying to downplay their involvement in the crime saying that they were threatened and that's why they didn't immediately come forward.
An interview with the local media outlets shall claim that he was just a witness who didn't call the police he had
interview with the Davis enterprise, with
in king. She had a jailhouse interview with him and
supposedly in the interview you saying that he's just a witness that didn't come forward with your way
Is it doesn't come forward in your heidi matt information, your part of the crime? If you didn't
the police right away. You know
at whatever happened, was wrong.
your mentally competent now he's trying to pull them. I'm not mentally common
and to stand trial, but here he hid it for two years:
He knew what he was doing. He went.
Round my job he walked on
and, unlike where I work he walked on the campus. He went away
his job, trying to intimidate
He bore he knew exactly what he was doing so not gonna clean,
mentally incompetent, now
I believe that at all and his sous is
one that actually, I think he wanted
the police and even took them out to where he thought the boy.
These were buried. Orange gives body was buried, but then,
supposedly he couldn't remember where and then they left they couldn't find where they had buried them or something, but he was trying to get. I think his suit
in the end, be on the news, article
and to sustain, or he was trying to get
in juvenile court is the reason he went and told the
less about the location, but that I don't think a police promised him anything so we'll just open
trying to find a binding figure if they went out
place all the time,
Then I don't. I don't see how he could not remember to get out there. I
certainly never actually been out there to see the area, but you
oh, if you, if you hurt, if you're a team,
or if you don't, you have this regular, hang out, you go out too
you're gonna remember how to get out there
there's no way. You're, not gonna. Remember how to get out. There is so
Maybe he backed out at the last minute in his mind, he was like. Maybe if I find the bar you we're not gonna, be able to pull.
That were not the one that did it. I don't know
His reasoning was, but I hope he,
changes is mine and tell the police where they are, because
for now. Yes, I want justice fur for both the boy
but my main goal is to find them because my friend
body is buried somewhere, where
can visit him. You know I mean
now, if we recover him what
What's gonna, be left bones,
I can't even see him again,
When you have a regular burial for somebody, you can see the boy
you can growing.
you more than one black time. What am I going to do when we find them if we ever do there?
see him again.
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bobo tommy, what it's been like having to face these men in court and hearing the horrific testimony. I hate
their faces
so hard when we have to go to court and see their faces. Its worst
It was really it's been really hard, because going
through my treatments I wanna do is be in bed and some days I am
the aid, and I can't even ie and
have to have enough energy to get up and go because I want them to know that we're gonna be there and work
stare at them and we're gonna make them pay for what they did, because.
No matter how sick and tired I am, I have to go, I drink, it can't be there for himself to say: hey the guy beat me up now
They didn't beat him up. It was something more so if you
can't be better than me, and my family have to be there for him, if he's here
looking at them and then sitting
the front row in David looks back at me every once in a while. He gives me this evil. Look, why is he giving me evil eye
be the one
giving him evil. What he's not.
he's not hurting he's alive.
I'm the one sitting in the back row hurting cause my
not here and he has the centre
to look back all the time and give me these works like. Why are you here?
as I have to be there for my son and here
this story because it for them
for a three day. The detective had to go in and see the what would happen basically
It was the hardest thing to hear.
Because we never heard exactly what happened before, and that was the first time we heard it, and I just wish that somebody
they told us in our had a time. This is what you're gonna here, but we could
HU. We could know what we're gonna hear beforehand be prepared
We went in there and we had to hear all that. One
I've wondered about is how well enrique knew these people at all.
ever heard him mentioned than before.
She ever met any of them now
Not I never knew until he went missing and I started
but the groom call up in the sun.
That he had an
before I had put a block on his phone couldn't call people could he was
I had a grounded him and I didn't want to call in therapy,
it's gone away and I wanted to be able to get hold of it. I had a block why only ten people call
He could call ten people, but before I had put them
he was able to call people, and I saw J on their set. What he's got it
why,
and I showed detectives because the rumours that coming out in a few weeks after he went missing and that J
I mean kept popping up with the rumours jonathan are day so there
Up to his car walkin, I sought J on their aid.
a screen shot of that and I sent it to detectives that way. They could start looking into it. Unlike J, I think it is in our group look of apparently
saying he didn't hang out with more
tell him or something I said if you say that would be
our screenshots, with his phone number that have incoming calls to enrique and out,
imports from indicative j
For then I had no idea he would hang out with people.
as Lola mentioned. The most important thing for her is that the boys are located shore,
after the arrests there were some news coverage showing areas that were being searched, but she is ensure if the police are still looking for them at this point, they
been very vocal about that, but I know they have. They were out there before doing searches after they after they went with his sous.
Think they went out there a few more times too, but I will
we're doing no searches. The dews is where I would keep informed and the news would say
out there again they're other searching, but I haven't seen anything like that:
detective. Are I don't know they're just keeping over there
their information to themselves for now, just because it
I scare anybody out if they are searching or if they're not they haven't, said anything to me. It was second beat
where they took enrique and the cut for they took malaysia. If I'm not mistaken,
apparently, the cuts is somewhere where a lot of people don't know about that place, though maybe
was bare, hang out in our David J Sandel and hazards hang out, but I think has Susan
that told detective that it
play swear and not allow
people go out there and it called the cut.
Further families. They don't believe that the stories shadow and he soon have been telling are the complete truth,
I dont believe that they would, unless there
I mean they are monsters, but I mean unless there's someone that extreme
insane in their brain. Like David, is, I don't see them
we met over three hundred dollars, I don't see Elijah
and then why enrique you know, they're there had to
something more there. Maybe they were, maybe they
to try it out to see if it would work with my son first were there
their plan was
and then they went out and in god eliza I just I don't know what there
now what the reasoning is, but I dont see them doing that for three hundred dollars.
I met a wiser. I met him. He was the sweetest guy. He was so he was so polite
I took Enrique him out to eat one day and he was yes MA am thinking so much man,
Over and over that most poles,
kid. I've ever met.
There is no way that he would have done
something like that and and a gun like like their claiming. I don't believe it
supposed to believe everything. They said, no,
I dont believe anything. They say nothing.
That comes out of their mouths. I believe our killer,
here to tell their side of the story than to say
This is actually what happened. This is why this is happening in
there's no way, I'm have believe the mouths of those for people at all
went to court not last week, but the week before
and this year I just want
hug her so bad. Could she wishes crying the whole time in and I think
happen with me, as the stress of trying to
strong for everybody else
crying in front of everybody else, and just now,
crying. You know like that. Stress is just what would happen to me.
So now I let myself cry when they have to.
That no matter, if this
but I dont believe the story, but even if the story was true, whatever they did to both of them was not from
did, they they deserved at all.
But not even close to what they were. They have deserved at all.
He, and I I just wanted a hug her, but I would hope that we have to ask and have to be careful with with em.
thing you know- and I just wanted to go up to her, but she just looks like I just she look like
she was falling apart inside and of course, and then of course,
falling apart inside too, but then hearing rumour or
the room or about your stand. It did you send it that I am sure hers. I,
horrible- and I don't want people to think like that about about her being
because I don't believe it.
I met him and I knew he was a good boy
want people to know that about him, and I don't want people to think that the reason that both boys are gone now is because of Elijah, and that's not true. It's because of the four that are in jail right now
they're waiting for justice to be served. Lollo told me about the current legal hold. Ups in the case could pursue system
in juvenile court, were trying to get him over to adult court.
right now. What happened is shot down.
was quarantine mentally he's not competent to stand trial. We have that we had to push back because of him
on the fourth we're gonna be backing court for history to see if they were able to.
Psychologists.
evaluate him, because I guess he has to be evaluated before we could start the transfer process to adult court if we could get his hands over to adult court that would,
the goal, and if we can all-
we could catch up. His is a case to the other one.
other ones already so far ahead that, hopefully
we can. If not, then his this would be tried in juvenile core and it's not gonna be
the jury at a dispute, the judge, to sentence into whatever she feels that
He is entitled to be sentenced to I'm thinking positive one.
if positive and hoping that that, since it is the crimes that were committed,
isn't something small like killing a back again from the store. I mean it was something big.
So I'm hoping that the judge see there, and
Transfer hearing is granted and he can sit in ITALY.
or with the other three like when we go see them at court hopeful.
You'll, be in there one of these days that we have
anything that we need to accomplish and hopefully happen, because he needs to be
getting where the other three are
Having a child go missing is one of the most devastating things can happen to apparent Lola bunny.
Is that the stress she was under for almost two years is what caused her to develop cancer. I mean it.
been extremely difficult,
as I was dealing with my son missing person, and I have that hope that I would see him
come home one day in a lady like every family of the missing child does,
de, I stress myself out so much
because I don't have that cancer gene in
Assuming because I mean I've always ran
brian in Eden, healthy and I dont know,
the cancer gene, so I'm assuming that I all this stress that
had to encounter with my son missing it just I start
the boy from breast cancer, because I
have any other indicators that show that my family, none of my family members, had it before. That's how stressful my life has been through.
hearted in, I can't even think right now, like mine, I don't you noticed,
I am talking my brain
as much.
Great now, you know when you're pregnant you have like the baby brain. Were you camping? That's exactly,
I'm feeling right now, like I'd, try to see words, and I can't think of anything when I want to say
thing. I can't think of the word.
For me, the hardest thing of out of both of these would be my son missing obvious,
The apparent carries more for their send that they do or their children more than they do for themselves
my mom would always save me how you have to tell everybody that your suffering with this
We know that your stuff
from what happened to Enrique
What is why and your counter? What caused it may, hopefully,
people were park and say
where they are or what happened or anything like that, and I just didn't want-
because I didn't want to take away from a story in their life
story? I don't want anybody to think about p and oak or on she suffering cancer. I I could care less
and I didn't want to say anything but final,
I said you know what maybe she's made my mom's right and I had to face.
one thing that we may be they
feel bad. Maybe they'll tell
where they are so I decided to.
To say: I'm. You know,
I've been going to two and hopes that they would open your mouth and say where they put them bud
For me, the hardest thing that happened within the last two years has definitely just been my son. For me, I could care less would have
with me, but I just want to make sure that
Brought home eventually I'd try to be as strong as possible,
myself by right. Now, it's just trying to find
where they are. That's the most important thing for me in
I was supposed to do forward chemo treatment and then a year of something called her ceptin. But I
wait to the young colleges last weekend
told me that I am not done with chemo. I still have he's gonna put me
the different medication, and they have twelve weeks left that shit,
we starting next week, so I have to go in one time a week for something called tactful jonathan pronouncing incorrect
but I have to go in for a weekly treatment of another chemo medication for twelve weeks. So
I heard you gonna be
he really now and I'm gonna have to be going to the court
up off my daughter early in the morning everyday for school.
even though we now have some answers in these cases, lollo struggles with the. Why we
told the alleged motive, but it still seems so senseless. It's better.
difficult on me, my life
You, like my life on liquid. What did I ever do to deserve my son? Not ever being here my foot, my son,
Sixteen, what did I ever deserve,
I mean when I had him. I was sixteen in his way.
Was ended when he was sixteen. I don't everybody says stuff,
and for a reason. But what would be the reason that my son was taken so young there's no justified
asian for it at all.
Nothing gonna ever make me either how I was before ever
one thing that's help: lola through these horrible times has been the support system that she has around her, and I have said
many people that are
emotionally there for me in. I have so many good friends and people back. Keep messaging me in making sure that I'm ok and they say you don't have to respond
I just want to let you know that
for you in that I hope, you're. Ok,
sometimes they dont messenger them back, and I feel guilty about that. Bud
I don't know how to explain it, but I have a feeling it. Of course it has to do
with depression where you don't wandering chow or you don't wanna keep.
communicating
you stay at home in
will you shut down? I guess what I'm trying to say.
I know that I enjoy paint might for they ve been,
inviting you to go out to different paint. Knights and I've been that's something that I asked
doing now, but something new to me that enjoy doing so in a garden
and keep my mind off his stuff too, so I tried to do stuff that keeps my mind occupied,
it's because, if sitting around and thinking like right now,
sitting in my son's rooms, but if I sit around
thinking. I do I just think about
images of what we think. What
We're told in the courtroom- and I can't keep doing
because I wake up with nightmare that my boy,
sleep. I may just thinking.
I try to keep my mind occupied ever.
is the first time that I spoke to Lola I
always admired her strength.
This hasn't been an easy road for her, but she just keeps pushing on shoes
determined to get justice for her son, a lot of people
I have told me that in it that make
we feel it makes me feel good. That people tell me that I'm a strong person, because when I feel soup,
weaken when I feel like
just can't anymore when
tell me that it makes me feel better because.
everything that I'm going through doesn't make me feel like a move and was drunk person, but
you think about it, and everything that I'm going through with iraqi, better lashes mom, it's going through them
Maybe I am a strong person is it me
If you go when people tell me that.
The second time that I interviewed bowler back in two thousand seventeen. I was
then struck by her strength
Her son was missing and then her husband was in a terrible accident and unable to work
This time she was searching for her son while working to jobs trying to keep her family afloat.
I remember we had to schedule to speak during the short breaks she had between her to jobs,
He was in a really bad car accident and he was off of work for about half a year even now
we know we ve been going to do
many things anymore.
It happened on my son's birthday. It happened on etiquette, seventeenth birthday, my foot, my husband's accident. It was january
second to dublin seventeen and he was coming home cause he was trying to get
class they later so he had gone to the practice driving
and on his way home. He was in a really bad car accident where his arm his left arm was broken. The boat, the bones in both of his former broke in his nose, was almost completely pulled off of his fate and the planet
virgin had to the a plastic surgeon had to come in and fix it because it will. It was basically hanging with just one part of the skin on the side.
The only thing I could think of, was or was only,
I can't believe this is happening to me and it's happening to me on intake of birthday like what what are we gonna do now. We we,
in a pair mortgage. How the all I could think about was like going
and to intervene,
your mood, I dont, know what else to stay in our
working double shifts almost every single day. What I did I would do, work
my main job, and then I go to my uncle job in work over there, and I did that for.
for the whole time that he was out of work. Why? We
but also we supposed to do so. You have to do even if you
collecting cans from anybody to to recycle that
I used to do when it was just mean enrique, and I had my own apartment and David brought back
I would do. I would work, cleaning, pools and woodland and
I would go,
collecting cans, and I would I would have it
workload
for my unlike the
the shabby that I have the bats
it would be foolish cans and bottles or whatever it. Every week I would go to.
recycled can then I would get about eighty two hundred dollars a week just and can- and
that was a little extra money, four hundred dollars a month here
care. What I would have to do to get those chance to recycle them.
I had to do what it had to do to take care of me and my son, who just anything.
when I had enrique, I was in high school, I think
its pregnant and tenth grade,
and I had a mini levin grade, but my plan
To be off for a little bit
what they had an unjust you homes all, but my credit foresaw back. I was it
on track for graduating
that I had to go back to school with with Enrique he used to weeks old, and I had to go back to school,
two we called- and I was still sore and I can barely walk still you nothing when you have a baby you're, not a better up. You have baby
go through that period, where your soaring, tired and I had to get up
the school within him, what he was two weeks old
and we used to have a bad that would pick us up and take us a squirrel boat, the fine,
then had
terminated for that eleven grade school year. So I
to walk from, I would say, with half a mile with my son,
the stroller my backpack on my back and his little.
Back on my on my side. It sometimes it would be raining. He was born in january and it was freezing. So I
put the umbrella overhead walk all the way to the bus, stop in hand
yellow bus pick me up and take me to school, but
time there would have nice people that would get off the birth and help me well
had to hold and dig it. They would help me fold up their stroller bring all my stuff in sometimes
do but myself. So I had to pick up a week in a hurry. The bus was like right, they're waiting for the stroller
and go up off toward the thing they had to carry up to beyond
go to school and be there on time
when a hustle mode ever since he was born in, and I think that
made me
strong. I guess
determined. I don't know, I don't know what our work.
would be used for that purpose?
the team don't gradually in
Oh, no, I have to happen.
We can now.
Have to graduate what future my gonna have for him. If I don't
I'd wait. What we
been told happened to enrique and eliza should never happened to anyone.
I thought they were so young. Just sixteen and seventeen is heartbreaking. They were
that point in their lives where they were working there first jobs and contemplating what they would like to do after high school, but at this
in time. They were still just kids
it's hard when you think about them.
stop. Babies are still growing there,
still enjoying
going out and having a whole pizza than themselves
they're going out in eating
ouachita that teams, like the had into their brains,
not even developed yet there baby.
They're, still wanting to do can start
I think, they're ground, but they are not. There stole there still teams and I see
high school kids when they walk by and or sometimes they ride their bikes around and that's what I think I used to do.
yeah when one day before they took him from me that he would write
bike rounder.
four walks. It that's why I see the team doing around here all the time and I can't stop him
stop thinking about that would be my son walkin around my style. I'd be almost nineteen this coming january,
would be able to take me to my doctors. Appointments could sometimes I can't drive. He would be
will they take me. You know over here or finally to go somewhere.
During the day, so I have to
I'm usually either at my mom's or home
what, if I'm home, and they get really
can. I can drive, I had to call the ambulance.
Some would have been able to be here to help me dry for other stuff
You ve been learning to do he's, not
did you
One of the reasons that Lola wanted to do this update is because she desperately wants to find enrique and eliza she.
hopeful that maybe she can reach the parents of these men and appeal to them to talk their sons into revealing the location. I think that a possibly it's the parents of
them are listening. If they listen to this-
If they go on,
Read my post how?
pouring it is for me to get the point across them to please
Let them know that all I want is my son home
you know the law would you will ever they're going to do with them
in jail now, but
They need to be held accountable, and I want to know where my son is blustering listening if they could, queen just
Agreed with them and asked them where, where they are, and if you
who said mom. Listen to this. I think she only speak spanish.
I want her to know that please tell his suit
We we want to know where the where they, where they left them and.
I understand and may be hard for her when she goes and seizing the court, because she's always prying and upset, but
She has her son alive and well. I do-
and I just want mine, my back
Do hear us please, just
from that time too,
I'm forwarding and let us know where they're, where they left him,
my bird
ok, maybe they're depressed either in jail at the wrong doing.
you know they're alive and and they could go with them, but they could talk to them on the phone if they write them a letter. Are they gonna answer yeah? Of course they are alive. If I write myself, a letter is gonna answer me: never
ever again, I'm never
to hear his voice ever again about the hook him,
I'm never going to be able to see him, I'm not going to say
the actual from him.
When I see him driving life, something he loved you wanted to do that. He just about the idea of driving and never
I see him do that. I'm never gonna teach him
They have their kid. They still have their children alive in that's, not fair,
I want them to tell them that I just wanna know what my son. It.
Another possibility is that there are other people out there who know where they are one
we do know, is a hasty had bragged about the crimes
Could he or one of the others have mentioned the location to somebody else yeah. I think that's true.
I just don't want to say anything to they're scared
or they don't wanna, be named nature like a lot of people say,
you think I don't wanna say anything in its. Not venus needs
have to come forward, they have to say in all they have to be responsible in me
have a heart and say what happen if they know they have to say: that's just it
brings us to the end of episode. One hundred and thirty, eight I'd like to think will love for taking the time to share her journey with us,
some of lola's friends has started to go. Find me for her. She
not one who likes to ask for help, but at
this time she's unable to work due to her cancer treatments and she also attends every court proceedings
I'll put a link to that in a show notes if you like to donate or even just share.
You have any information about the murders of enrique and eliza or where they may be located. Please
how the yellow county sheriff's office. I five three zero six six
six eight to eight two or the
woodland police department at five, three, zero, six, six, six, two four
one one.
Bobby first reported the missing an we started
on facebook, the first few
I had a lot of good comment, but
hands of negative comment.
You know all they ran away together because their gay arm, their lovers, saw. I saw them hanging out of here office all this stuff. That would like what the hell
Are you talking about?
You know that my friend missing- and I am asking- is a sharing of
Sorry to see if we could find him in here,
king find out of the situation that I'm crying over. You know I mean
While we have something negative
The
and
I
the.
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