Karma: The Disappearance of Anastasia Ferriera, Part 2

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, News

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

For the family of Anastasia Ferriera, the search has been defined by obstacles: a detective they waited six months to meet, and tips that arrived too late or led nowhere. Her mother, Natalie, and grandmother Brenda have largely driven the investigation themselves, canvassing the International District, funding billboards and radio ads, and connecting with advocacy group Aunties for Justice.

In this conclusion, we follow the leads that emerged after Anastasia's disappearance, including a search warrant executed at a southeast Albuquerque address, a missing persons flyer recovered from a stolen vehicle in Oklahoma, and a woman who appeared at God's Warehouse claiming to be Anastasia. Her case is now cold, the original detective has retired, and her family is still waiting for someone to come forward.

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If you have information about the disappearance of Anastasia Ferriera, please contact the Albuquerque Police Department at 505-242-COPS or Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers at 505-843-STOP or p3tips.com/531. There is a ten-thousand-dollar family-funded reward for information leading to her whereabouts.

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0:00.0	This is the third episode in our latest season featuring missing persons across the United States
0:05.1	and the second in a two-part series.
0:07.5	The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are solely the interviewee's own.
0:11.6	All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
0:15.7	There's discussion of substance use and violence in this series, so listener discretion is advised.
0:27.9	This is the fall line.
0:31.2	Last time on the fall line, we began the story of Anastasia Brenda Ferreira.
0:36.3	Born December 9, 2003,
0:38.4	Anastasia was the only child of her mother, Natalie Padilla,
0:41.8	and beloved by her family.
0:43.8	Her maternal grandmother, Brenda, she helped raise her,
0:46.9	every weekend from the time that she was a baby.
0:49.9	We heard from both of them about who Anastasia was,
0:53.1	a precocious, friendly child who was fiercely
0:55.8	protective of the people she loved. Natalie recalls that Anastasia was both what she described as a
1:01.8	daredevil and a girly girl, a girl who enjoyed spending time at her grandmother's rural home.
1:07.5	That's where she could care for animals, and just be with her family. As she grew older,
1:13.1	she developed a love for art, and by the time she was a teen, Anastasia was an aspiring tattoo artist
1:18.8	who filled her bedroom walls with her own designs. We talked about her teen years, too. The bullying
1:25.1	in eighth grade, the expulsion due to a fight that she didn't start,
1:29.1	the back and forth between her parents' households, her boyfriend, the car accident,
1:34.3	the signs that something had shifted. By the time she was 19, Anastasia was living with
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