Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt.

And today, I want to tell you a story that was told to me by Deelia D'Ambra, the host

of our other show, Counter Clock. And she was a reporter in Florida for some time, and

she told me about a case that has been rocking Southern Florida for four years. Though,

the case didn't get much national attention. And listen, I have to give a special thanks

to Michael Braun and Melissa Montoya, really, I mean, to news press in general, because

they were the only ones who really kept this story alive in the press. Without their reporting,

much of this story would be unknown. A story of a young girl whose innocence was stolen

by a predator. This is the story of Diana Alvarez.

It was Sunday, May 29, 2016, when Rita Hernandez and her live-in boyfriend started with a thought

was going to be a normal day. Rita at the time was very pregnant and moving slowly, so her

boyfriend, Rebe, was helping get all five kids up and moving for the day. But there was

a problem. Diana, Rita's oldest from her first marriage, was gone. The family lives in

a small mobile home in Fort Myers, so it wasn't hard to search the entire place up and down.

She was nowhere. They know this isn't right, so right away, sometime between six and seven

in the morning, the family calls the local sheriff's office to report Diana missing. A deputy

is dispatched, and from the very beginning, there is a problem. The language barrier. Diana's

family speaks Spanish while most of the Lee County Sheriff's deputies speak English.

Through piece-together translations, three persons of interest immediately emerge for

police. Both adults living in the home, that's Rita and Rebe, and a 20-something man named

Jorge, who had lived with the family for some time in their trailer, but who had recently

moved three hours north to Orlando. According to Michael Braun and Melissa Montoya's reporting,

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