The detective came and knocked on the door and he just gave me that solemn look.

Just two days earlier on Saturday, June 3, 2000, Donna Ramos had reported her 18-year-old daughter Renee missing.

Now, on Monday morning, a detective was on her doorstep with the worst possible news.

At a construction site on the edge of town where a Home Depot was being built,

workers had discovered the body of a young woman.

And I asked him point blank. had discovered the body of a young woman.

And I asked him point blank.

I said, is it Renee?

And he said, well, I'm pretty sure it is.

But we still have to wait for dental records.

Officially, the body had not been identified, but unofficially there were no doubts that it was Renee.

The missing person case was now a murder investigation.

He said, who do you think could have done this? And I said, well, it was probably Jake. In my head already, I thought it was Jake.

Did you tell him why you thought that? Because of the relationship they had.

She had a black eye about two weeks before her murder

and I remember her in the bedroom,

just putting makeup on her face.

When Donna had seen the black eye, she asked Renée if her boyfriend, Jake Silva, had hit her.

Renée denied it, but Donna didn't believe her.

I just told her, you've just got to break up with Jake.

You've got to break up with this kid.

I said, if you don't break up with him, a black guy's going to lead to something much worse

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