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I saw a plane inside vehicle okay see they on the left by 10 yes yeah just just north of the
highway I don't really know what it is it I couldn't tell you okay unknown vehicle okay anyone you said there's
people outside the vehicle I believe I saw at least one person outside [Music] yeah you heard it there in the 911 call
this was received about a vehicle on fire the Call Comes In This is the early morning hours of April 17th
2023 according to police the 911 call was received at about 12:30 a.m. on April 17th the fire department responded
but while they were there extinguishing the Flames the firefighters noticed someone in the back seat of this vehicle
the Department of Public Safety at approximately 1:40 a.m. notified and dispatched several Sheriff patrol cars
to this scene so we have the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office they're at the scene now and they're responding shortly
after 2 a.m. they we have about five cars there five officers and patrol cars on the scene by 212 a.m. at the very
latest the vehicle was located sitting on the North shoulder of I 10 this is a freeway right around the 85 mile marker
the vehicle that is found in Flames is a white 2018 Chevrolet Malibu now we don't get a very
detailed description of the scene here Captain but we we have that vehicle information and we have a pretty basic
description of a female occupant in the back seat of the vehicle who appear to be deceased when First Responders arrive
on the scene yeah so pretty quickly law enforcement's going to learn it's all hands on deck this is a murder scene yes
sadly the female occupant in the backseat of the vehicle who appeared to be deceased sadly that was the actual
case and unfortunately this is already a situation where they did not need to and
there was no reason to attempt to perform life-saving measures in that moment so later the sheriff's office
would determine that the deceased female occupant found in the back seat of this
vehicle was 22-year-old Mercedes Vega she's pronounced dead at the scene from my understanding this vehicle is found
just west of tonopa this is Desert there is nothing out there tonopa is a approximately 50 a 5 Mile Drive West of
the great City of Phoenix and this is about 10 miles further west than that little city this is the most common
route that one would take when driving from Phoenix out to Los Angeles the 911 caller was identified and he has
cooperated extensively in this investigation to be perfectly clear here he didn't see the body in the backseat
of the car he just saw Flames he called this in Via his cell phone as he was driving on the 10 and continued along
his journey while on the phone and after the 911 call ended so this is just somebody saw something and they're
saying something phoning it in hey this is what I see I'm driving out here on I 10 and there's a vehicle on fire now one
thing that I find interesting there there's a few things that are interesting about this 911 call the
first is his description now keep in mind he's traveling at a at a at a rate of speed here down the highway so we
can't say with great certainty how good of a look he got at what he's reported but based off of his words on
the 911 call here Captain one thing he says is he says I can see a flame or he says I can see Flames
inside the vehicle as he's driving P it so that's not clarification if the outside of the vehicle were on fire too
but based off of reports that we would later have the opportunity to review it sounds like the vehicle fire was started
from inside and that is what our witness is seeing when he calls hey there's this
vehicle on the side of the road and I can see Flames inside he also notes and says that I can see somebody down there
that's exactly what he says down there by the bushes I find this incredibly interesting the
911 person responding to the call the answering the call they're called the 911 operator dumbass says to him you can
see two people and he says no just one keep in mind what's going on here if you're the dve if you're this guy
driving along you see this vehicle on fire he's doing the right thing by calling 911 notifying them it doesn't
sound like this is a vehicle that's just blazing right a fire that's just blazing
and flames and flames and Flames it sounds like an isolated fire inside the vehicle that he's seeing
and Reporting but if you're the if you're this guy traveling along you're probably assuming look vehicle vehicle
fires happen they you know a vehicle can malfunction something goes wrong with it what was the poor what was the
old thing that they were saying for years they were calling Ford Explorers Ford exploders because they had some
terrible recall they had to do cuz the Explorers kept catching on fire fire all of us most of us who have traveled the
freeways frequently eventually you'll see a vehicle either on fire or one that has been recently put out by the good
people of the fire department so this is not uncommon and I'm guessing that he's
under the assumption that well the person I saw outside of the vehicle probably it was the driver of said car
had to get out of the vehicle because it was on fire so he probably thought hey I'm calling this in to not just get this
fire put but to help this person that I S spotted near the vehicle as I was driving along unfortunately what we
don't get captain is a great description of the person that he saw near the vehicle because what we would later
learn is this vehicle doesn't belong to the victim who was found in it and it also clearly does not belong to the
person that was seen on the side of the road yeah and if you're law enforcement this gets difficult because what do we
know about evidence being destroyed water can destroy evidence pretty well and so can fire now not only do you have
a murder scene a murdered victim but somebody that obviously was trying to cover it up make no mistake about it
this wasn't a situation where this person died in the vehicle from the vehicle fire no that this was an attempt
like the Captain's pointing out to destroy physical evidence at a scene and leave the victim there inside of
this vehicle let's continue through the known details of the crime scene before we get into some other pertinent
information a medical examiner report revealed the evil that the victim faced before passing before the murder she had
blunt force injuries a gunshot wound and the odor of bleach was detected in her or around the lck of the victim again
this is 22-year-old Mercedes Vega she lived in Tempe she lived nearby gloves and bleach were found in the
front of this vehicle let's talk about these blunt force injuries and the gunshot wound a bit here before moving
on so the gunshot wound is primarily reported to have being as she was shot in the arm there is one report out there
that says that she was shot in the head but I I don't think that that was the case here Captain I think that was just
a typo or some bad information because every other report that we were able to review say that she
was shot in the arm the blunt force injuries seem to be primarily on the the head of our
victim here it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduce the situation of if you're if you have this bleach odor
coming from the the throat of the victim per the medical examiner report yeah well bleach a bleach container bottle
was found in the front portion of this vehicle gloves too right so we have somebody here who who likely
used gloves at the in the commission of this crime and probably just took them off or
or bought an excessive amount of gloves we've seen that in several cases and left left these gloves along with the
Bleach inside this vehicle Who belongs to who knows who we have this poor victim that's found in the back and like
you stated it's not her car we don't know who owns this car but what we always say it's easier to find a car so
if you have the car you can find out who it's connected to and her father so Mercedes Vegas father and I'm sure the
her mother believes this as well and feels the same he feels strongly that the car could be the key to unlocking
this mystery yeah I I would agree so what we have here this this is what we do know the vehicle that Mercedes is
found in th this is we cannot stress this enough it's a very big part of this mystery the vehicle was not hers this is
the white Chevy Malibu it did not belong to Mercedes Vega the vehicle had a salvaged title now we have have a family
news 3 uh Arizona family news who working with the police and look the police already did this work behind the
scenes but for this portion of the story to reach to the public it had to be the the news station
that uncovered this information they figured out who this vehicle once belong to it once belonged
to a and I'm just going to I'm going to simp liy her name a bit it is public record but it's not it's not super out
there but the vehicle used to belong to a Mis case and she openly spoke to the news about what she knew about the
vehicle that that she once owned so this vehicle was involved in an accident and
it was total at the scene of that accident so the technically we have a salvage title but technically the
vehicle no longer belongs to this misc case in fact if you review some of the reports on this case the actual owner at
this point would appear to have been State Farm Insurance Agency which makes complete sense based off of what this
woman is saying about the vehicle she says I had the vehicle for a short period of time uh I was involved in a
terrible accident the vehicle was total by the insurance company right and the last time I saw it was being towed off
to a lot it was on the back of a tow truck so possibly somebody stole it from that lot that has to be what happened I
would like to know what I what we don't know is if it's totaled there I would think there would have to have been some
repairs or considerable repairs to this vehicle at some point but and and then what is the condition of the vehicle
like did how does it appear to law enforcement that this vehicle was was stolen right does it look as simple as well
somebody got the keys hopped in it started it up and drove it off the the Salvage lot right or you know did
somebody bust out a window and have to have to Jimmy rig this thing so that they could they could take it off of the
lot which could be fairly easy given the state of the vehicle we don't know what
condition this vehicle was in it makes you wonder if the the lot has any cameras and it can we figure out
who stole this vehicle but I do know that you can buy a car off of somebody with a a salvage title yes you
absolutely can and so I don't know if the lot purchased it from State Farm or or how that all worked itself out
sometimes it can be a situation where if a vehicle is determined to be abandoned
which can happen with total vehicles or vehicles that have been in an accident and they're towed off to a lot sometimes
insurance companies will leave them there sometimes people will leave them there and then at some point the vehicle
becomes the property of the the lot or junkyard owner very mysterious this whole vehicle but this adds a little
background information for the vehicle of who it once belonged to and how it may have gotten to be involved in this
horrific murder while we're at it here Captain I want to make sure we mentioned AZ family news 3 we also have news2 and
KT news that's a radio station 92.3 FM have all done great work covering this case since the beginning yeah so we want
to give them a shout out because most of our source materials coming from from those three Outlets specifically with a
Briana Whitney from a family in particular having done a great job with this very difficult story we don't know
how Mercedes got there we don't know why she's there we don't know who car this is or who was controlling the
car we don't know who's leaving the scene but what do we know about the victim who is Mercedes yes let's hit
some background information what do we know about the victim what do we know about this area in particular so
Mercedes Mariana Vega was only 22 years old when she was abducted and killed and
we we know this is an abduction because of how she's found and we know that right away because she's found in a
vehicle not belonging to her from a young age her parents say that she was a confident and driven girl her
personality was magnetic her parents say that she was going to be an amazing mom
someday she came from a blended family this is a bit of a Brady Bunch type situation if you will the youngest one
in curls yes when when her parents get married uh they're each bringing children to the to this new
formed family Mercedes she went to middle school and high school in the East Valley area and eventually moved
into her own apartment this in Tempe Arizona now Tempe Arizona is a city located in Maricopa County Arizona the
Census Bureau reporting that the 2020 population was over 180,000 people it's located in the East Valley like we said
section of Metropolitan Phoenix which is big and sprawling that's what she said it's bordered by Phoenix and Guadalupe
on the west Scottdale on the North Chandler on the south and Mesa on the East the one thing that may play a
factor here in this case is Tempe is the location of the main campus of ASU Arizona State University and I say the
reason why that might might play a fact Factor here is unfortunately Arizona State
University at this time and in the year prior were reporting higher than normal crime
rates and it's we're not saying that these crimes are being committed by students of the University
but th this is something that I think is somewhat familiar to people that have awareness and and good knowledge of
these larger universities that are spread out through this great country that that sometimes
you get this influx of people and population in a certain area and therefore crime can sometimes and crime
Trends can follow that yeah the university and the surrounding areas are occupied but not by all students it's
actually a small percentage of the students that live in that area and they're actually more occupied by just
people of that similar age not going to school Mercedes danced at a club she was
an exotic dancer she danced at a club two nights a week and she had done so for a little bit of time and we we'll go
back in time here in her timeline for reasons that will be obvious when we get to it but she at the time of her Murder
She was dancing at a club two nights a week she was saving money to accomplish her goals she was working to get her
personal training her personal trainer certification Mercedes listed out her goals for 2023
as follows so she listed this out and this is when somebody's passes away you always have that moment or in most cases
where people are going through your loved ones are going through your belongings and remember she lived out on
her own my family would be very disappointed in me her family finds that she had listed out her goals her
short-term goals for the year of 2023 yeah and they were listed as follows she wrote pick up a new hobby be open to
relationships that are meaningful and travel great goals her mother Erica Pillsbury goes on to say quote she was
just starting to realize that she had so much potential end quote one month before she was killed this was for her
birthday she went and visited Hawaii which was her favorite place this was open and known to people that that knew
her best that Hawaii was her favorite place she had been there several times before unfortunately nobody knew that
this was going to be her last visit to Hawaii she comes back captain and she tells her mom like how special the trip
was and how much she loves that place and she says mom I want my kids to cremate me and spread my ashes in Hawaii
because that's where my soul belongs I have some experience with this cuz I have been to Hawaii it's it's hard to
explain to people anytime somebody says I want to go to Hawaii I go you have to go but also there's this there's
something spiritual or it feels spiritual while you're there you feel like you're your soul is Awakening in some
capacity yes I I'm a big proponent of uh go and cleanse your your soul and your existence and your reality in the oceans
of this beautiful world that we live in like whether it be Hawaii off the the West Coast or off the east coast like
there's something to me and I know you're talking Hawaii specific I've not been there but to me anytime I get to go
to the ocean there's something that's like mentally emotionally and even spiritually healing to me about being in
in the ocean and I can't speak for for Miss V obviously but clearly she felt that that is where her soul belongs I
mean for for someone to say that at her young age of 22 and to have that I mean that's almost a a brilliant observation
by a young person to tell parents one day I want my kids to spread my ashes there because that's where my soul
belongs yeah like I said I I I agree with her but it could have been the Mojitos or it could have been the
shirtless buff male hoola dancers but I felt Awakening my friend that's right well th this thing this portion seems a
bit trite here but I think this is important to the case as well because this gives us a little bit of insight
into the Dynamics of her family and Mercedes parents this is and Erica Pillsbury they said that look we we are
very close to our daughter we are very close to to our kids but very close to Mercedes in particular and furthermore
they say we were in constant communication with her adding that if there had been any
safety concerns if if Mercedes had any safety concerns or people that she was suspicious of they said Mercedes would
have told them this so yeah and I'm not victim blaming quote I am not victim blaming but
the the profession that she was in those clubs attract some some bad stuff and but I'd also say that just
about any bars when I played in a cover band those bars didn't always just attract people
that were were going out for a good time over the weekend no they can certainly attract
some unsavory characters to to put it politely and look there is a reason why these
clubs escort the women to their vehicles yeah after their after the shift yeah after their shift is over and look you
we're going to see things in her timeline we're going to see actions by our victim to that will notify us and
make us understand that she was concerned about her safety and she wasn't dumb she was I I I would wager
Franklin on this and I feel very confident here Captain she would not have worked at a club that she felt
unsafe I I I feel that very strongly now is there a connection between her murder
her abduction and where she worked very that's certainly a possibility it would be a possibility also if you're a
bartender female or male there are people that get the wrong impression because you're just giving them friendly
service and you you start getting regulars that show up and have infatuation with you and that also
happens at at strip clubs oh absolutely I mean probably more so but but but even like like I said
going back to the cover band thing we had women that would show up and that would have an infatuation with the cover
band so I'm not victim blaming at all it's just a part of the equation that we have to look at if we want to solve this
crime yeah and there are there are men uh unfortunately I don't know any of them personally but there are men that
will spend their entire paychecks at at these types of establishments so if if if you Flinch at the word
infatuation right don't because you could one would only spend their entire paycheck if they if they were infatuated
even if it's just fleeting now as we pointed out arriving on the scene on the side of I 10 immediately the Maricopa
County Sheriff's office they have to understand as soon as they they they figure out just two simple things this
poor woman that was found in the back of this vehicle she didn't own this vehicle
then secondly the vehicle has a salvage title so it's rightful to believe that nobody technically no individual anyway
owned this vehicle so immediately if you're an investigator or even just a deputy you're going this poor young
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tall cans in the air party to the people hotel motel holiday in cheers to you Colonel cheers to you stay thirsty my
friends and stay filthy April 16th right unfortunately our victim is found in the
very early morning hours of April 17th and it's not going to take a whole team of blood hounds to figure out where Miss
Vega was abducted from so we go to the prior just hours prior Mercedes Vega is last
seen alive and well the night of April 16th 2023 on surveillance camera footage from her Tempe apartment complex hold on
I might be the dumbest boy in school but does she have identification on her is that how they're able to
figure out who our victim is she very likely did I I the the problem with this case is they've kept some of the
information and I I I need to rephrase that I shouldn't say the problem the problem for the storytelling angle of
this case is that law enforcement has kept some of this information very hush hush on the
details my assumption is that she would have had some form of identification on her we know that she is identified
rather quickly yes and then we have an address so then we can go to our we can go to our apartment complex then we can
ask them oh and she lives in a nice place so she has um the place that she lives in has security and they have
video so now we can see that it's working yeah yeah surprise surprise it's working let's give this place a let's
give this place a thumbs up we don't we don't know how great the place is but I give it three thumbs up three thumbs up
because cameras are working if this is your first garage show we've reviewed hundreds of cases and it feels like 75
to 80% of the time the surveillance camera cameras are not operating properly whether it be from an apartment
or from a gas station or a school sometimes they're working but they're it's such bad quality that it doesn't
really matter or they're working but the timestamp isn't correct yeah well these
ones were working and I they released police released a very small snippet of security camera footage now we say
released a small snippet we do we don't know we just don't know how much they have um this could be all that they have
I don't know the positioning of these cameras but to to do my best to try to describe it for everyone the camera
footage comes from the park garage of her apartment complex so she's seen walk walking into the parking
garage and her apartment is not on the first floor you can see her entering the parking garage and it appears that she's
entering via like a staircase or a stairwell this is at 9917 p.m. remember the the 911 call comes in and at it was
about 12:30 a.m. we only have about a missing 3 hours here we talked about the distance between Tempe and where the
vehicle was eventually found it's every bit of of 50 minutes 5 minutes to maybe closer to an hour so if she's alive and
well at 9:17 p.m. and found in this vehicle that's spotted by an eyewitness at 12:30 and that 3 hours and 15 minutes
roughly well so yeah so we have a small time window in which she was abducted attacked and
abducted let's think about the the let's try to crawl Inside the Mind of the abductor here because what I when you
have this small of a window of time that's in question we don't know everything that took place during that 3
hours and 13 minutes roughly but it would seem it would stand to reason to me anyway that if you're finding gloves
and a bleach container and Flames yeah inside a vehicle that nobody with the salvage
title this individual arrived not just willing and but ready yeah ready ready with a vehicle that could be dumped
ready to start a fire ready to to use bleach to destroy physical evidence and gloves to hide detection a and so I
can't imagine for the life of me that that within that little window of time and and one hour of that has to be spent
driving out to the location where she's found that in two hours time after the abduction that those items were
purchased I don't think so not for a second I think this person showed up ready to go and that would indicate to
me that that a high probability I think that she was targeted Well here here's I have so many questions one do
we know what her schedule was supposed to be that night well that's very interesting too because
she originally she was due to meet friends for a lot of Reports say she was meeting
friends for dinner but it's pretty late right yeah but but here's the thing she's younger so well but but once you
hear the whole story you may change your mind on on the details of this a lot of
the reports said she was meeting friends for dinner but also there are reports that says she was meeting friends at a
local Dave and Buster so you can one could have dinner at Dave and Busters one could also just go there
and play video games and have a few cocktails right but what we do know now is police later determined that yes she
while she had these plans she changed her plans and they they say abruptly that's the word that they chose to use
she changed her plans abruptly and she decided to go into work that night well anybody that's worked in any service
indust knows that if somebody doesn't show up or their short staffed or whatever you could get a call that says
hey Nick could you come in and bartend for this evening and she chose to go into work that night now when they say
changed her plans abruptly I would like what we don't know what's not the clarification that's not provided on
that is did she notify her friends that she wasn't going to meet up with them or
was it a situation where friends are hanging out and they go yeah Mercedes was supposed to show up wonder what
happened you know and then but but they speak to her employer right investigators speak to her employer and
they're like yeah we we spoke to her on the phone and she was coming into work tonight or last night or the day before
whenever they speak to them and you can see her on this surveillance footage so the surveillance footage is is quite
good it's not grainy like you can you can see her and she's wearing a casual outfit she appears to have a large
handbag with her I know given the occupation sometimes you're bringing outfits or makeup or things of that
nature with you so she's wearing like a black T-shirt and jeans and she doesn't appear to be stressed out or worried or
in fear that something's about to happen right now we crawl Inside the Mind of the victim and we go this poor young
woman was probably ambushed and like go back to what her parents said if she were in danger or she was in fear or
suspicious of anybody we feel very confident telling all of you the public in the news that she would have
communicated that to us well it makes you wonder if her destination was leave my apartment go right to work but we
also know like when you're getting called into work cuz somebody didn't show up or whatever you don't always
have to be in a hurry to get there so is is there a possib ility that she had a another stop before she was going to go
to work well stop or no stop it doesn't matter because we get told by law enforcement that she was abducted right
there in the parking garage I wonder if they have any footage of that that's a good great question because like with so
many other cases you know the deli Cas is in trial right now and so many people had eyeballs and earballs on that for
years and one of the big one of the points of contention with that amongst the masses were was always well do they
we have this little this little video clip here and we have this audio but do they have any video or audio prior to
that or or after what we've been shown well then it also makes you wonder is this just random oh here's this pretty
girl walking in the parking garage here's an opportunity or is it somebody that was laying and waiting for her I
know where she lives if if she has a stalker or if she has again somebody that is infatuated with her oh I figured
out where she lives I know what her car is I just now have to go and and wait for her yeah it's very troubling because
I can't say with any great level of certainty that I'm correct here but everything about it tells me that I
think she was I think she was targeted simply for the fact that I think that that somebody went to Great Lengths to
hide evidence to destroy evidence and to convolute the the scene and the movements of the victim and the
movements of the perpetrator and I think that to me in most cases here Captain one only goes to all of those efforts if
there's some kind of connection between the victim and the perpetrator because if if it's
completely random then you you don't need to distance yourself so so much from the victim right or or really stage
the scene or really confus destroy evidence yeah because because there's really no ties to you now I guess
something if if the perpetrator in this situation would have become aware or knew in advance I I shouldn't say become
aware we should say knew in advance because again this killer appears to have shown up at the site of the
abduction prepared to do what the result was and again which I think so maybe they did went to those efforts simply
because they knew that there were there would be surveillance footage yeah very possible but I I lean towards what
you're saying this individual comes prepared and so how would you why would you come prepared well no I guess that
makes sense though too uh if you're just looking for a victim you would come prepared you would come prepared yeah
but but but but to conceal and Destroy evidence and confuse the scene implies that there's either a connection
between the perpetrator and the victim or you knew that there's going to be things like surveillance footage that
you would have to these are hurdles that you have to overcome to to get away with
this I mean do we have law enforcement telling us whether we should be looking for one killer or two killers when we go
through the de some more of the details to come I think many will have a shared suspicion that it it took two to to do
this uh these are these are not just monsters these are animals this is so vicious and I I don't
understand and I'm sure that this case was suggested by some listeners but we live in a messed up Society where we're
this has not been talked about enough this case has not been talked about enough in the sense of we we have
information to give out to the public that they could help us and I think it just simply goes back to what it always
is oh well this this individual she was a dancer so I guess she doesn't matter as much yeah the case has been a a
rather big case in the area there I did see some reports that it's gone out Nationwide but but this one is fairly
new to us now in in the grand scheme of things it's unfort a fairly recent case you know she was she was killed last
year yeah and but here's the thing captain we're told that the she's attacked in the parking garage right so
they have some evidence they have something that tells them that they don't just say that on a hunch but
here's here's the [ __ ] of this the car that she's found in is not hers and then
her car is not found where it would be part parked in the parking garage her she's she's found dead in a
car on the highway and her car her vehicle is Mia then on top of that don't don't law enforcement find I think they
find some blood evidence in the garage and that kind of is what I'm guessing is the evidence unless like you said they
have the attack on film exactly we just don't know what they do and do not have on film they've been tight lipped about
that they have shared a small snippet of the surveillance footage that's the one
that I described where you can see her going about her business carrying out her day walking towards her car getting
ready to head off to work and she doesn't look concerned about what might be around the corner what we have here
Captain is they do find the vehicle and as you suggested maybe they found some blood evidence or evidence at the scene
in the parking garage that is telling them a story but they're also going to find this vehicle and once they locate
the vehicle they're going to find evidence with the vehicle that is going to start to tell them a portion of the
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In the early morning hours of Monday, April 17, 2023 around 12:30 a.m., the Department of Public Safety received a 9-1-1 call of a vehicle on fire on interstate 10 outside of Tonopah, Arizona. The Fire Department extinguished the fire and found 22-year-old Mercedes Vega inside deceased. This vehicle fire quickly became a homicide investigation. If you have any information regarding this case you may contact Silent Witness at 480-948-6377 / 480-WITNESS, or 480-T-E-S-T-I-G-O for Spanish speaking. You can leave a anonymous tip at www.SilentWitness.org (http://www.silentwitness.org/)

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Brief Summary

Mercedes Vega, 22, was murdered and found in a burning car; investigation reveals evidence of foul play and possible targeting.

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Ghoulish Delights Beer Feature. Featuring a seasonal beer from Stone Brewing, Ghoulish Delights is a dark lager with maple syrup.
911 Call Report. A 911 call reports a vehicle on fire, leading to a shocking discovery.
Murder Scene Discovery. A deceased female occupant is found in a burning vehicle, raising immediate alarms.
Background on Mercedes Vega. Mercedes was a 22-year-old with dreams and aspirations, tragically cut short.
The Healing Power of the Ocean. Discussing the emotional and spiritual connection people have with the ocean.
Mercedes Vega's Last Night. Exploring the timeline of Mercedes Vega's last moments before her abduction.

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She was just starting to realize that she had so much potential.

Mercedes' mother reflects on her daughter's aspirations.

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