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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Dad demands answers about daughter's Cancun death

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Bill Conner wants to know why daughter Abbey drowned in a shallow pool at a Cancun resort. Local police did not question witnesses before declaring it an accident, the father says. Conner and reporter Raquel Rutledge talk to Nancy Grace in this episode about the investigation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph Channel 132

0:11.0

A search for answers after a young American tourist mysteriously died at a luxury resort in Mexico.

0:17.0

It was supposed to be a fun family vacation.

0:19.0

Abby Conner and her brother both found unconscious and a hotel swimming pool.

0:23.0

Somebody needs to be held responsible for this.

0:25.0

Abby and Austin had been swimming at the pool just chest high water.

0:28.0

It doesn't make any sense.

0:29.0

We're lucky we didn't lose both of our kids.

0:31.0

Austin with a concussion and golf ball sized lump on his head, Abby with a broken collarbone brain dead.

0:36.0

She died in a hospital days later.

0:38.0

Mexican officials have ruled this an accidental drowning, but that's not enough for the family.

0:43.0

Mexican police, they say, refused to investigate further.

0:46.0

She was healthy, but for some reason she drowns in a pool.

0:50.0

Waste deep.

0:51.0

You know, all year I look forward to summer vacation when I can spend time with my nine-year-old twins

1:00.0

and just be with them instead of being on a schedule where I'm racing to get them to school,

1:07.0

then I'm racing to work, then I'm racing to pick them up.

1:10.0

And it's, you know, it's a lot to get them everywhere, get me everywhere.

1:17.0

And I look forward to that moment when we can just be together.

1:23.0

That is what a family had planned, but their little girl, Abby, never made it home.

1:34.0

She never made it home.

1:38.0

She was found face down in a swimming pool, and I want answers.

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