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The Pregnant Woman Who Dug Her Own Grave · Scary Paranormal Stories

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  Speaker 1: A nine months pregnant woman spent the last hours of
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  Speaker 1: her life digging holes in an empty field outside Socorro, Colombia.
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  Speaker 1: She believed she was about to find 75 million pesos
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  Speaker 1: buried in the ground. One of those holes became her grave.
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  Speaker 1: There is something in this case that stayed with me
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  Speaker 1: long after I finished reading the details. The trap didn't
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  Speaker 1: spring in a moment of violence or chaos. It was
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  Speaker 1: built slowly, week by week, in a hospital waiting room.
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  Speaker 1: That detail changes everything about how you understand what happened next.
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  Speaker 1: This is the story of Sandra Yesenia Bernal. Sandra was
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  Speaker 1: 34 years old, and September 9th, 2016, was already circled
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  Speaker 1: on the calendar. That was the date of her scheduled
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  Speaker 1: Caesarean section. Her sixth daughter. She already had five girls
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  Speaker 1: at home in Socorro, a municipality tucked into the mountains
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  Speaker 1: of Santander Department in northeastern Colombia, and her partner, Isidro Hernandez,
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  Speaker 1: had been by her side for 17 years. The family
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  Speaker 1: lived on a small farm in one of the rural districts,
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  Speaker 1: just outside the town center. The kind of place where
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  Speaker 1: you know your neighbors and the road to town takes
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  Speaker 1: less than 15 minutes. Brenda Catherine, her oldest, was 16,
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  Speaker 1: The youngest was two. Sandra's life in those final weeks
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  Speaker 1: revolved entirely around the approaching birth and around one quiet
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  Speaker 1: financial worry. The money wasn't there. A million pesos for
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  Speaker 1: the new baby's needs, not a fortune. Just enough to start.
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  Speaker 1: That specific need is the thread that Isilda Maria Diaz
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez pulled. Isilda was 32 years old and went by
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  Speaker 1: the nickname La Cachy. She had eight children from different
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  Speaker 1: men and was living in a small rented room in
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  Speaker 1: Socorro with her current partner, Leonardo Sanchez, who was seven
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  Speaker 1: years younger than her. Neighbors described daily arguments that turned physical.
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  Speaker 1: In 2016, Leonardo tried to leave her. Isilda announced she
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  Speaker 1: was pregnant. He stayed. The pregnancy was a lie. She
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  Speaker 1: had lost a baby in the first trimester. and told
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  Speaker 1: no one. What Isilda did next required patience. She began
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  Speaker 1: appearing at the same prenatal control appointments as Sandra, her senior.
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  Speaker 1: Both women seemed to be around five months along when
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  Speaker 1: they first met in the hospital waiting room. They sat
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  Speaker 1: together in those plastic chairs under fluorescent light, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of place where women share due dates, and baby names,
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  Speaker 1: and the particular exhaustion of a body at its limit.
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  Speaker 1: Isilda made herself useful, consistent, warm. She showed up each
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  Speaker 1: time Sandra had a visit. There is no record of
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  Speaker 1: how long this took. What is known is that by
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  Speaker 1: early September, Sandra trusted her enough to keep a secret
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  Speaker 1: from Isidro. The offer arrived as an opportunity. Isilda told
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  Speaker 1: Sandra that her husband had stolen 75 million pesos during
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  Speaker 1: a robbery in Bogota and buried the money in a
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  Speaker 1: rural field. Just ten minutes from Socorro's town center. She
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  Speaker 1: couldn't go alone. She said she needed someone she trusted.
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  Speaker 1: She would pay that person one million pesos for one
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  Speaker 1: afternoon of help. One million pesos, exactly the amount Sandra needed.
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  Speaker 1: Isidro heard the story and refused. He didn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: And he told Sandra to stay away from it. Sandra agreed,
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  Speaker 1: at least in front of him. Then she kept the
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  Speaker 1: plan alive in secret. She also asked her uncle Solomon
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  Speaker 1: to come with her, quietly, without letting Isilda know he
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  Speaker 1: was there. She wanted someone watching. She wasn't entirely without caution.
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  Speaker 1: What she couldn't have known was that no one in
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  Speaker 1: that area had ever heard of buried money in that field.
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  Speaker 1: Not a single neighbor, not a single person from the
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  Speaker 1: surrounding farms. The story existed only inside Isilda's construction of it,
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  Speaker 1: assembled specifically for Sandra. specific to her financial need, specific
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  Speaker 1: to the distance she could walk in her condition, specific
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  Speaker 1: to the week before her daughter was going to be born.
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  Speaker 1: The trap had been closing for months. Sandra never saw
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  Speaker 1: the walls. The morning of September 2nd, 2016 began like
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  Speaker 1: any other Friday in Socorro. Sandra made two phone calls
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  Speaker 1: to Isidro. before ten in the morning. In the first,
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  Speaker 1: she confirmed what both of them already knew. The Caesarian
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  Speaker 1: was scheduled for September 9th, one week away. In the second,
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  Speaker 1: made at 10.42, she told him not to worry. She
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  Speaker 1: was going home. That was the last time Isidro heard
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  Speaker 1: her voice. What happened in the hours between that call
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  Speaker 1: and nightfall took investigators five days to reconstruct. But the
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  Speaker 1: outline of the plan had been taking shape for months,
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  Speaker 1: built slowly, detail by detail, inside a hospital waiting room
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  Speaker 1: where two women with rounded bellies talked about their pregnancies,
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  Speaker 1: their children, their lives. Isilda had chosen Sandra carefully, not randomly.
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  Speaker 1: The two women appeared to be at the same stage
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  Speaker 1: of pregnancy, around five months when they first met. Isilda
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  Speaker 1: began showing up to the hospital on the same days
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  Speaker 1: Sandra had appointments. Weeks passed, trust accumulated. And then, when
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  Speaker 1: the timing felt right, Isilda made her offer. One million pesos.
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  Speaker 1: That was the number. All Sandra had to do was
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  Speaker 1: go with Isilda to a piece of land about ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes from the center of Socorro. Help locate the spot
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  Speaker 1: where 75 million pesos were buried and keep it between them.
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  Speaker 1: The money Isilda explained came from a robbery her husband
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  Speaker 1: had committed in Bogota. It couldn't be reported. It couldn't
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  Speaker 1: involve too many people. Sandra was someone she trusted. Isidro
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  Speaker 1: said no immediately. The story had too many loose edges.
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  Speaker 1: No neighbor in that area had ever heard rumors of
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  Speaker 1: buried money. No one in the surrounding farms knew anything
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  Speaker 1: about a robbery, a hiding place. or a fortune beneath
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  Speaker 1: the dirt. The whole thing felt constructed. Isidro told Sandra
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  Speaker 1: to stay away from it. Sandra listened. And then she
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  Speaker 1: went anyway. She brought a layer of caution with her.
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  Speaker 1: She asked her uncle Salamone to follow at a distance,
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  Speaker 1: positioned among the trees where Isilda wouldn't see him. Salamone agreed.
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  Speaker 1: He watched the two women arrive at the land. He
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  Speaker 1: saw them talk. He saw Sandra begin to dig. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: looked wrong. It looked exactly like two women searching for
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  Speaker 1: something in the ground. He had work to do. He left.
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  Speaker 1: To do, he left. That detail, a witness present, seeing
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  Speaker 1: nothing alarming, walking away, is the cruelest hinge point in
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  Speaker 1: the entire case. Salomon was meters away. He watched for
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  Speaker 1: a while. The scene looked ordinary. It was not ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: What Salomon didn't see was Juan Carlos Vega Ruiz, 26
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  Speaker 1: years old, known by the alias Cindy, waiting somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: that same terrain. Juan Carlos had prior records for theft,
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  Speaker 1: public disorder, and drug use. He was on crutches that day,
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  Speaker 1: recovering from a recent leg fracture. Isilda had offered him 500,000 pesos,
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  Speaker 1: roughly $ 125, to help her kill Sandra and take the baby.
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  Speaker 1: The rational explanation for Salomon's departure was simple. He saw
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  Speaker 1: nothing to alarm him. Two women digging in a field.
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  Speaker 1: He had no reason to stay. The rational explanation stopped
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  Speaker 1: working here. Because what looked like two women digging was already,
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  Speaker 1: in every meaningful sense, the last minutes of Sandra's life.
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  Speaker 1: Isilda had brought what she believed was a sedative in
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  Speaker 1: a syringe. She had some knowledge of nursing. She understood,
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  Speaker 1: at least in theory, how to administer an injection. What
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  Speaker 1: she didn't know was that whoever sold her the substance
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  Speaker 1: had given her a liquid analgesic, instead a painkiller, not
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  Speaker 1: a sedative. It would not incapacitate Sandra the way she
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  Speaker 1: had planned. It would take longer. It would not be complete.
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  Speaker 1: Sandra dug multiple holes in that terrain. Isilda directed her,
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  Speaker 1: pointing to different spots, saying the treasure was deeper or
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  Speaker 1: further to the left. or in a slightly different location.
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  Speaker 1: The last hole was the largest. Sandra dug it herself.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, the injection was administered. The analgesic worked slowly.
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  Speaker 1: Sandra did not collapse immediately. Minutes passed, and then she
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  Speaker 1: lost consciousness. What happened next is confirmed by confession. There
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  Speaker 1: is no version of this story where everything makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: After this point, Isilda and Juan Carlos opened Sandra's abdomen.
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  Speaker 1: While she was unconscious, the pain brought her back. Sandra
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  Speaker 1: woke up. She screamed. She called for help. Juan Carlos
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  Speaker 1: covered her mouth. Then he... picked up a large stone
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  Speaker 1: and struck her until she stopped making sounds. The forensic
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  Speaker 1: examination later confirmed the injuries. Severe lacerations and bruising across
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  Speaker 1: the face. The skull destroyed by blunt force trauma. wounds
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  Speaker 1: consistent with a large rock. The report also noted a
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  Speaker 1: wide abdominal incision, exposing internal organs. The baby was removed
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  Speaker 1: from Sandra's body. She was wrapped in a blanket. Then
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  Speaker 1: Sandra was placed into the largest hole, the one she
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  Speaker 1: had dug herself and covered with earth. The forensic team
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  Speaker 1: that later examined the site could not determine whether Sandra
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  Speaker 1: was buried while she was already dead, or while she
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  Speaker 1: was still alive. That question has no answer. It remains open.
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  Speaker 1: By approximately five in the afternoon, Salomon returned to the land.
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  Speaker 1: The site was empty. No women, no movement, no sound,
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  Speaker 1: just turned earth and silence. He didn't understand what he
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  Speaker 1: was looking at. Hours later, when Sandra still hadn't come home,
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  Speaker 1: Isidro began calling her phone. It rang, and then It
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  Speaker 1: went directly to voicemail. He kept calling. It kept going.
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  Speaker 1: To voicemail. At ten that night, the family filed a
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  Speaker 1: missing persons report at the police command in Socorro. Slightly
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  Speaker 1: after eleven, police called Brenda Catherine, Sandra's oldest daughter, sixteen
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  Speaker 1: years old with a piece of information that seemed, for
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  Speaker 1: a moment, like relief. A woman had been seen at
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  Speaker 1: a local restaurant with a newborn baby. She was distressed,
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  Speaker 1: She was crying. Could Brenda come and see if she
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  Speaker 1: recognized her? Brenda went. The woman at the restaurant was Isilda.
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  Speaker 1: She was holding a newborn girl, wrapped in a blanket,
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  Speaker 1: and she was crying visibly. When Brenda arrived, Isilda told
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  Speaker 1: her that her labor had come early, that she had
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  Speaker 1: given birth alone, on a farm, that Leonardo had become violent,
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  Speaker 1: and she had fled. She wept over Sandra's disappearance. She
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  Speaker 1: said she was worried. She said she didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: could have happened. Brenda looked at the baby. The baby
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  Speaker 1: was alive. She had no way of knowing, standing in
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  Speaker 1: that restaurant, that the child in Isilda's arms was her sister.
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  Speaker 1: The collapse of Isilda's version happened inside a hospital examination
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  Speaker 1: room in the early hours of September 3rd. Isilda had
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  Speaker 1: been taken to the hospital with the baby and the police.
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  Speaker 1: Doctors examined her. What they found, or rather, what they
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  Speaker 1: did not find, ended the story she had been telling.
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  Speaker 1: There was no vaginal bleeding, no placental remnants, no physical
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  Speaker 1: evidence of any kind that this woman had given birth
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  Speaker 1: hours ago, or days ago, or at any point in
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  Speaker 1: the preceding two months. The ultrasound confirmed it. Isilda Maria
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  Speaker 1: Diaz-Rodrigue had not been pregnant when Sandra met her at
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. The friendship, The shared appointments, the parallel bellies,
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  Speaker 1: the trust, every element of it had been a structure
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  Speaker 1: built around a lie, told first to Leonardo, then extended
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  Speaker 1: to Sandra, then used as the mechanism of a murder.
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  Speaker 1: Isilda was detained that night. Five days later, on the
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  Speaker 1: morning of Saturday, September 7th, Isidro and Salamorn walked into
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  Speaker 1: the police station and told the full story of the treasure,
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  Speaker 1: the field, the holes in the ground. Officers accompanied them
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  Speaker 1: to the location. They found several filled in holes, and
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  Speaker 1: one large opening with no new vegetation covering it. Sandra
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  Speaker 1: was in that hole. The items found near the site
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  Speaker 1: told the rest. A syringe, a soft drink can, a
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  Speaker 1: plastic food container from a restaurant, and hospital documents with
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  Speaker 1: Sandra's name on them. Security cameras from the days before
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  Speaker 1: the crime showed Isilda and Juan Carlos visiting the same
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  Speaker 1: terrain together. The planning had been documented, without anyone knowing
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  Speaker 1: it was being documented. The evidence that connected Juan Carlos
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  Speaker 1: to Sandra's body was a small blood transfer, almost nothing,
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  Speaker 1: forensically speaking, on one of his crutches. The genetic analysis
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  Speaker 1: matched it to Sandra, Yesenia Bernal, an object that existed
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  Speaker 1: because of a broken bone, carried by a man who
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  Speaker 1: needed it to walk. became the physical link between a
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  Speaker 1: paid accomplice and a woman he had helped kill for
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  Speaker 1: the equivalent of $ 125. Both Isilda and Juan Carlos signed
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  Speaker 1: agreements with the prosecutor's office. Neither went to trial. Isilda
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  Speaker 1: received 35 years for aggravated homicide, trafficking of a minor,
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  Speaker 1: and simple kidnapping. Juan Carlos received 25 years for the
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  Speaker 1: same charges The baby was identified through DNA analysis and
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  Speaker 1: returned to Sandra's family, to Isidro, to Brenda Catherine, to
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  Speaker 1: the five sisters who had been waiting for her since
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  Speaker 1: before she was born. She now grows up alongside them.
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  Speaker 1: Brenda Catherine said publicly that she had expected the sentences
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  Speaker 1: to be longer. The forensic record contains one question it
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  Speaker 1: cannot close. Whether Sandra was conscious when the earth was
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  Speaker 1: placed over her, whether she heard it, felt it, understood
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  Speaker 1: what it meant. It's something no examination was able to determine.
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  Speaker 1: The hole she dug with her own hands, the last
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  Speaker 1: image the field holds of her is not the one
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  Speaker 1: she imagined when she drove out there that morning. Thinking
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  Speaker 1: of a million pesos and a daughter about to arrive,
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  Speaker 1: it is something else entirely. And that is where the
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  Speaker 1: story leaves her. On the morning of Saturday, September 7th, 2016,
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  Speaker 1: Isidro Hernandez and Salamone walked into the police station in
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  Speaker 1: Socorro with a story that no officer had yet connected
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  Speaker 1: to anything. They described the field, the holes, the promise
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  Speaker 1: of buried money, and a woman named Esilda. The officers
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  Speaker 1: accompanied them back to the vereda. The ground told the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Several holes had been covered over with loose soil and
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  Speaker 1: tamped down. One had not. The largest opening had no
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  Speaker 1: fresh growth over it. No attempt at concealment beyond the
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  Speaker 1: dirt that had been pushed back in. When investigators cleared it,
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  Speaker 1: they found Sandra Yesenia Bernal. She was 34 years old.
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  Speaker 1: Her cesarean section had been scheduled for two days later.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic examination confirmed what the scene already suggested. Severe
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  Speaker 1: trauma to the skull. Blunt force applied repeatedly, with a
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  Speaker 1: large stone. An abdominal wound that had exposed internal organs.
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  Speaker 1: The baby was not there. The body was, around the hole,
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  Speaker 1: a syringe, a soft drink can, a plastic food container,
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  Speaker 1: and hospital documents bearing Sandra's name. Every object had a
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  Speaker 1: purpose in the original plan. Every object became evidence. The
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  Speaker 1: blood on one Carlos Vega Ruiz's crutch was tested. It
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  Speaker 1: matched Sandra's DNA. That single detail, a small transfer on
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  Speaker 1: the aluminum of a mobility aid, was what locked The
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  Speaker 1: physical chain closed. Juan Carlos had been on crutches because
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  Speaker 1: of a recent fracture in his leg. He could not run.
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  Speaker 1: He had not needed to. What he carried back from
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  Speaker 1: the field was enough to place him exactly where the
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  Speaker 1: confession said he had been. Both Isilda and Juan Carlos
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  Speaker 1: signed plea agreements with the prosecution. There was no trial.
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  Speaker 1: Isilda Maria Diaz Rodriguez was sentenced to 35 years for
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  Speaker 1: aggravated homicide, trafficking of a minor, and simple kidnapping. Juan
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  Speaker 1: Carlos received 25 years on the same charges. He had
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  Speaker 1: been paid the equivalent of roughly 125 US dollars. That
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  Speaker 1: was the agreed price for what happened in that field.
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  Speaker 1: The baby was identified through DNA analysis and returned to
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  Speaker 1: the paternal family. She now lives with her five sisters,
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  Speaker 1: Brenda Catherine, Sixteen years old, the daughter who had driven
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  Speaker 1: to that restaurant in the middle of the night, believing
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  Speaker 1: she might find her mother, was later asked about the sentences.
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  Speaker 1: She said she had hoped they would be longer. There
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  Speaker 1: is something that forensic science could not resolve. The medical
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  Speaker 1: examination established the cause of death, but could not determine
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  Speaker 1: whether Sandra was still alive when she was placed in
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  Speaker 1: the ground. The injuries were consistent with survival into the burial.
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  Speaker 1: They were also consistent with death before it. That question
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  Speaker 1: has no answer. It remains open in the official record.
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  Speaker 1: And it remains open here. What this case requires is
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  Speaker 1: a specific kind of attention to what Isilda actually built.
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  Speaker 1: This was not an impulsive act. Security cameras captured Isilda
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  Speaker 1: and Juan Carlos visiting that field on multiple days before
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  Speaker 1: September 2nd. the story of the buried money had been
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  Speaker 1: refined over weeks of shared waiting room conversations. Isilda had
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  Speaker 1: learned Sanford's schedule, her due date, her financial pressures, and
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  Speaker 1: the name and habits of the uncle who sometimes accompanied her.
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  Speaker 1: She had shaped the plan around a real person's real life.
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  Speaker 1: Isidro had refused to go. Sandra had told him she
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  Speaker 1: would not go either, Her call at 10.42 in the
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  Speaker 1: morning of September 2nd was the last time anyone who
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  Speaker 1: loved her heard her voice. After that call, the phone
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  Speaker 1: rang out. Then it went directly to voicemail. Then it stopped,
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  Speaker 1: mattering what anyone dialed. The thing that stays with this story,
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  Speaker 1: the detail that does not resolve itself into any comfortable frame,
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  Speaker 1: is that Sandra dug the hole herself. She was nine
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  Speaker 1: months pregnant, working through the heat. of a September morning,
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  Speaker 1: in a field, outside, Socorro, moving soil, with her own hands.
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  Speaker 1: Because she believed she was doing something practical and necessary
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  Speaker 1: for the daughter she was about to have. She did
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  Speaker 1: not know what the hole was for. She never had
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  Speaker 1: the chance to know. That daughter is alive. She is
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  Speaker 1: growing up in the same household as her five sisters.
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  Speaker 1: In the family, her mother built over 17 years with
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  Speaker 1: Isidro Hernandez. She will be told at some point what
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  Speaker 1: the documents and the DNA and the court records say
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  Speaker 1: about the day she was born. What she makes of
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  Speaker 1: that information is a question that belongs to her alone.
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  Speaker 1: Brenda Catherine said the sentences were not enough. She said
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  Speaker 1: that the day her mother disappeared will always be what
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  Speaker 1: it is. There is no word she used had softened it.
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  Speaker 1: The legal process closed. The files were sealed. The field
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  Speaker 1: outside Socorro is still there, unremarkable from the road, indistinguishable
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  Speaker 1: from any other stretch of scrubland in that part of Santander,
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  Speaker 1: and the forensic question stays open. Whether Sandra was conscious
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  Speaker 1: when the earth covered her, whether she could hear anything
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  Speaker 1: in those final moments, whether she understood what had happened
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  Speaker 1: to her child, is something no court document will ever answer.
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  Speaker 1: The examination could not say. A confession did not address it.
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  Speaker 1: The record ends at the edge of that hole, and
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  Speaker 1: everything beyond it belongs to the silence that filled it.
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