This is a Rogue Media Network podcast.

Do you ever have a story that you just can't get out of your head?

One that you play the details of over and over with your friends.

Well, you've come to the right place.

I'm Claire.

And I'm Susan.

And this is justice pending. A weekly true crime

podcast where we discuss tantalizing crimes with more questions and answers. Some cases go cold because

the killer was clever. Some because evidence was scarce. And some because nobody had the

time to look closely enough. Today's case is the story of a young mother, a 25-year-old woman

working hard to support her daughter, whose life was stolen back in 1991. And for 34 years,

her case sat mostly untouched. Her family learned to live

with heartbreak, police hit dead ends, and leads dried up. Until a group of college students,

literally doing their homework, opened the door that detectives had been trying to unlock for three decades.

Hi, I'm Susan.

And I'm Claire.

Welcome back to another episode of Justice Pending.

Today we're talking about the case of Cynthia Gonzalez.

But before we talk about the arrest, before the cold case, the classroom, the breakthrough,

we have to talk about the victim. the cold case, the classroom, the breakthrough, we have to talk about

the victim. So in 1991, Cynthia was 25 years old, a young mother, a woman who, by all accounts,

was warm, loving, and fiercely protective of her daughter, Jessica, who was just six years old

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