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This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and extreme violence.

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Seeing the room set up with the pulley systems in the ceiling and everything he

had and then the tape I knew it was something he did all the time and at

that point I knew they had did this to other women.

Cynthia V. Hill-Heremio grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and had a rough childhood.

I was born to a 15-year-old mother and a 17-year-old father father. Growing up I didn't have much family.

The family I did have didn't believe me on a situation that had occurred in the

family and so I felt like I didn't have nobody once they

didn't believe me and my mother was the only one that believed me but she was

on drugs real bad.

And I had to go with her every night while she did drugs

and worked the streets and did what she did

during the nighttime.

I had ended up on the streets because my mother had

been found dead in southwest Albuquerque and they put her death off as a drug

overdose and didn't investigate how she ended up in a ditch.

So after my mother passed away, I basically had nobody. In March of 1999, 22 year old Cynthia had been staying in a motel and needed money to pay the bill.

I was living and working on the streets in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I had been working as a prostitute and selling drugs off and on for six years.

I was running from a boyfriend that I had at the time and I was

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