Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt.

You guys, I think there is this low-level hum of anxiety that almost all mothers live with. And it truly never goes away. What you worry about will change over the years, though the consequences never seem less severe. Like when they're little, there's this fear of them falling or

choking on something tiny that got left on the floor. When they go off to school, you worry about

them making friends or getting bullied. Like my daughter is in preschool right now, and there is this

one girl in her class who keeps saying that she is better than my daughter. And some days,

Joe comes home, like, really put down. I want to go full mama bear. I'm trying to keep my cool. It's not really working. But I know when she grows up, I'm going to worry about her getting her heartbroken. When I'm not driving her everywhere, I'm going to wonder where she is, who she's with, if she's safe. And God help me when one day she wants to take a trip out of the country. The regular human in me will be

excited for her. I know how much I, like, itch for those experiences, like stuff like that when I was

young, and I want her to have all of that. But I'm also a crime junkie mom. And that means in the back

of my head, I am picturing the worst case scenario. Something terrible happening to my daughter, but in a place

a zillion miles away where I can't get to her, a place where the rules and laws are totally

foreign to me. I don't speak the language and I have no connections or resources. I can prepare

for almost any scenario, but in that one, I would feel like my hands are tied. And that is the nightmare scenario

that one mother found herself in beginning in October of 2022. When her 25-year-old daughter

went on a last-minute trip to Mexico with a group of kids from her college. One minute,

her daughter is calling her, telling her she's having this amazing time, like like, few, sigh of relief, she's happy, she's safe.

But then, 24 hours later, she's being told that her daughter is dead.

The story she hears is that she got too drunk, died of alcohol poisoning.

But that was not the full story, far from it.

And over the next few weeks, an anonymous call, a leaked video,

and conflicting Emmy reports call everything into question. The people who know what happened that

day are the ones who were there on that trip. But they have never spoken out. That is, until now. Literally, right as we were about to record

this episode, someone who was on the trip got back to us. And in his first ever media interview,

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