I'm John Quignores.

Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier,

vanishes while on duty at an Army base in Texas.

Her family demands answers.

How can she go missing on a military base?

That's too ridiculous.

The search goes on for months.

Where is Vanessa? And a dark story starts to unfold.

She told her family that she was being sexually harassed

and wasn't reporting it out of fear of retribution and retaliation.

What investigators finally uncover is horrifying.

Find out how one soldier, a beloved sister and daughter, ignited a movement and sparked

a reckoning in the U.S. military.

Listen to Vanished.

What happened to Vanessa?

A new series from ABC Audio in 2020. Listen now,

wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, just a quick warning here. This episode contains very

graphic descriptions that may not be suitable for all listeners.

In a story like Devil in the Desert, sometimes there are a bunch of details that don't make it into the final version of the series, entire sidebars and plot twists that are so

interesting, but we just can't quite fit them into six episodes.

I'm Brad Milkey. I'm host of ABC's Start Here podcast, and as someone who was gasping with each twist and turn of devil in the desert, I'm glad that we get to bring you one of these today in a special bonus episode. Join me today is the host himself, Matt Gutman, ABC's chief national correspondent, who first learned to the story of Jose Nairi more than 10 years ago. He's been following it ever since. Matt, great to have you here. Hey, Brad. Good to be back. I think I've told you this before. I'm from Orange County in California where so much of this story takes place. So I grew up around Newport Beach. I grew up around Balboa Island. I made the drives out to the desert. So I was just transfixed by how unsettling these

locations became because of the depravity of this story. Obviously, Nairi is the centerpiece

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