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True Crime with Kendall Rae

Abducted & Left in a Burning Car: What Happened to Mercedes Vega?

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

A huge thank you to Erika, Tom, Alahzay, Makenzie, and Astilia for participating in this case. Their effort these last few weeks has made this episode possible, and I am so grateful for their time and energy.

A note from Erika to detectives:

Dear MCSO, FBI and the Great state of Arizona.
Your dismissive attitude towards my daughter’s murder is disgusting. The unimportance of her life is obvious. Your ignorance of reality and unwillingness to tell me why my daughter is gone pisses me off. If anyone deserves to know why she is gone, it’s me.
It’s been almost a year... Explain to me why you can’t give her mamma an answer as to why she is gone!!! Why can’t you tell the mamma of this beautiful woman why her baby is dead!?!?
Why do her siblings, cousins, grandparents, and her incredible friends continue to wait? No reason, no comfort, no answers?? Why do we have to continue to look over our shoulders for the killer of our loved one? Why are you not sharing details? Why aren’t you reaching out to the public for answers. Why are you unable to provide answers to these questions? Are you just ignoring us? Is she that unimportant to you? It can’t be that hard. I need you to find the ANSWERS!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome.

0:15.0

So I've got to true crime with Kendall Ray.

0:12.8

Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:15.0

And if you're new, then welcome.

0:16.8

So I've got to say right out of the gate here

0:19.4

that the case we're going to be talking about today

0:21.2

is extremely disturbing. It's very upsetting and shocking.

0:26.1

And what's also shocking is it hasn't gotten really any media coverage and very little coverage in the true crime community either.

0:35.3

And I wanted to take time to talk about it today because it's so badly needs

0:40.7

attention. More people have to know about this case. We're going to be

0:45.2

talking about Mercedes Vega. Now before I jump into this case I wanted to say it

0:50.0

right in the beginning while the majority of you are still tuned in that this family really needs

0:56.3

some financial help and I'm going to be making a donation to their go fund me of course on behalf of this channel and all of you who support it and if

1:06.2

you are able to make a donation I really encourage you to do so.

1:10.3

This family they are so incredible. I was truly moved talking to them and

1:16.0

feeling their passion and their love and how badly they need justice that they

1:22.0

are not going to give up until they get

1:23.9

justice and I want to help them and I'm sure many of you want to help them as well

1:27.7

to achieve that goal right now they have put together a $2,000 reward for information and they're really hoping to increase that number as much as possible.

1:38.5

And I understand how rewards for information can sometimes seem so distant like someone's never

1:45.2

going to come forward but I really am so confident that someone has to know

1:50.0

something here and maybe they just need the right incentive or maybe they'll just

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